| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第13-25页 |
| 1.1 Patrick White and The Vivisector | 第13-17页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review of The Vivisector | 第17-24页 |
| 1.3 Innovation of the Research | 第24页 |
| 1.4 Structure of the Thesis | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter Two DUALISM AND THE VIVISECTOR | 第25-32页 |
| 2.1 Dualism and Descartes | 第25-27页 |
| 2.2 Explanations of Interaction between Body and Mind | 第27-29页 |
| 2.3 Cartesian Dualism and The Vivisector | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Three VIVISECTION OF BODY AND SOUL | 第32-49页 |
| 3.1 Hurtle Duffield's Split Self | 第32-40页 |
| 3.1.1 Incompatibility of impoverished origin and ingenious insight | 第33-36页 |
| 3.1.2 Representative of the recluse of society and the elite of art | 第36-39页 |
| 3.1.3 Conflict of the vivisector of body and the creator of soul | 第39-40页 |
| 3.2 Hurtle Duffield's Vivisection to Others | 第40-49页 |
| 3.2.1 Penetratingly analyzing his tutor Mr Schewcoft | 第41-42页 |
| 3.2.2 Coldly observing his adoptive mother Alfreda | 第42-44页 |
| 3.2.3 Cruelly vivisecting his lovers | 第44-49页 |
| 3.2.3.1 The architecture of Nance Lightfoot's body | 第45-46页 |
| 3.2.3.2 The depiction of Hero Pavloussi's flawed soul | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter Four INTEGRITY OF BODY AND SOUL | 第49-65页 |
| 4.1 Hurtle's Spiritual Exploration with Others' Help | 第49-57页 |
| 4.1.1 Transcendent interactions and rebirths | 第50-53页 |
| 4.1.2 Combination with his alter-self Rhoda | 第53-55页 |
| 4.1.3 The birth of spiritual orphan Kathy Volkov | 第55-57页 |
| 4.2 Realization of Self-Wholeness through Hurtle's Own Exploration | 第57-65页 |
| 4.2.1 The progress of self-wholeness reflected in his arts | 第58-61页 |
| 4.2.2 The self-transcendence reflected in his "strokes" | 第61-63页 |
| 4.2.3 Indigo: the final epiphany of spiritual self | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第65-68页 |
| WORKED CITED | 第68-70页 |
| NOTES | 第70页 |
