| 摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ A Survey on the Characteristics of Modernism | 第14-30页 |
| 1. A General Sketch of Modernism | 第14-16页 |
| 2. The Backgrounds of Modernistic Literary | 第16-22页 |
| 3. The Main Motifs of Modernism | 第22-26页 |
| 4. The Relation between Flannery O’Connor and Modernism | 第26-30页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ The Omnipresent Sense of Crisis of Modernity | 第30-42页 |
| 1. Alienation: The Irrevocable Identity of Crisis | 第30-35页 |
| 2. Horror: The Traumatic Malaise of the Sullen Child | 第35-38页 |
| 3. Predicament: The Pervasion of Nothingness | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ The Gothic Presentation of Modern Disillusionment | 第42-56页 |
| 1. The Gothic in the South | 第42-44页 |
| 2. Flannery O’Connor and the Grotesque | 第44-47页 |
| 3. Grotesque as a Shocking Exposure to Crisis | 第47-49页 |
| 4. Hulga’s Narcissism in Wooden Leg | 第49-56页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ The Symbolic Indication of Modern Confusion | 第56-71页 |
| 1. Flannery O’Connor and Symbolism | 第56-60页 |
| 2. The Recurrence of Symbolic Settings as “Hell” | 第60-63页 |
| 3. The Echo of Symbolic Objects for “Faithlessness” | 第63-66页 |
| 4. The Reappearance of Symbolic Names for “Universality” | 第66-71页 |
| Conclusion | 第71-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-76页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第76-77页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表论文及参加科研状况 | 第77-78页 |