前言 1
Chapter Ⅰ Introduction 1
1.1 A Critical Review of the Snopes Trilogy 7
1.2 A Theoretical Overview of Deconstruction 15
1.3 The Popic and Task of the Dissertation 20
Chapter Ⅱ TheHamlet:Signification in Motion 23
2.1 Signification in Motion:Saussure Deconstructed 24
2.2 Intrasemiotic Motion:Différance in The Hamlet 27
2.3 Intersemiotic Motion:Supplement in The Hamlet 49
2.4 Transsemiotic Motion:Rhetoricity in The Hamlet 67
Chapter Ⅲ The Town:Text in Dissemination 75
3.1 Dissemination and Text 77
3.2 Intertextual Dissemination:The Town and its Yoknapatawpha sisters 82
3.3 Intratextual Dissemination in The Town 105
3.4 Extratextual Dissemination:The Town and Its Allusions 114
Chapter Ⅳ TheMansion:Existence After Subversion 127
4.1 Existence in a Subverted World 128
4.2 Mink's Subversion of"the Old Moster”and"them-they-it" 132
4.3 Linda's Subversion of Her Generalissimos 143
4.4 Flem's Subversion of His Own Existence 163
Chapter Ⅴ Conclusion 177
Bibliography 189
Acknowledgements 202
Appendix Ⅰ The Family Genealogy of the Snopeses 204
Appendix Ⅱ Faulkner Research in China:Retrospects and Prospects 205
Appendix Ⅲ The Sound and the Fury:Three Selves and Four Orders 225
Appendix Ⅳ Structural Aesthetics of the Stream-of-Consciousness Fiction:A Case Study on"The Mark on the Wall" 238
Appendix Ⅴ A Corpus-Based Research on Faulkner's Works 252