E.L.多克托罗历史小说的后现代派艺术研究

Introduction

A.E.L.Doctorow' s Life and Literary Career

B.Doctorow Studies in America and China

C.Theoretical Frame, Structure and Main Contents of the Dissertation

Chapter 1 The Characteristics of E.L.Doctorow' s Postmodern Historical Fiction

A.The Nature of Historical Fiction

B.Doctorow' s Coverage of Almost All Periods of American History

Chapter 2 The March：A Literary Representation of the American Civil War

A.Inventing the Past

B.History as Myth

Chapter 3 The Waterworks：A True Picture of the Political Corruption of Capitalism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

A.The Historical Situatior

B.From the Real World to the Artistic World

C.Anti - Industrialism

Chapter 4 Ragtime：A Literary Representation of America in the 1910s

A.The Trarformation of Pre - World War I America into Images

B.The Fragments of Time into a Series of Perpetual Presents

C.Verisimilitude Irtead of Objective Truth

D.The American Dream

Chapter 5 World' s Fair：The Historical Writing of the Great Depression in the

1930s and Its Indeterminacy

A.A Historical Writing about the Great Depression

B.Indeterminacy：World's Fair as an Innovative Autobiography

Chapter 6 The Book of Daniel：The Politics of Polyphony of McCarthyism in the 1950s

A.The Red Scare and McCarthyism

B.The Politics of Polyphony

Chapter 7 Postmodern Artistic Devices in E.L.Doctorow' s Historical Fiction

A.Doctorow' s Faith in His Postmodern Historical Fiction

B.Mixture of Genres：Fiction, Autobiography, Play and Detective Stories

C.Blending Fact and Fiction

D.History, Culture and Politics

E.Doctorow's Narrative Art

Conclusion

Works Cited

Acknowledgements

《E.L.多克托罗历史小说的后现代派艺术研究》引领中国读者更深刻地了解美国后现代主义的过去和现在。本文采用后现代主义和新历史主义等理论，关注E.L.多克托罗历史小说，揭示其后现代历史小说的特点。多克托罗的小说充分体现后现代状况与历史，文学与历史的关系，文学文本和历史文本。