目录序 1
前言 1
A Note on Abbreviations 1
Introduction 1
Chapter One The Postmodern Social and Cultural Contexts of William Gaddis 26
Ⅰ．The Concept of Entropy in the Postmodern United States 27
Ⅱ．Entropy in the Postmodern Artistic Theory and Works 33
Chapter Two Entropy in William Gaddis's Postmodern Human World 41
Ⅰ．Entropy in the American Capitalist System 42
Ⅱ．Entropy in the American Capitalist Culture 63
Ⅲ．Entropy in Individual Selfhood 72
Chapter Three Entropy in William Gaddis's Postmodern Artistic World 77
Ⅰ．Gaddis's Deconstruction of Traditional Spatio-temporal Concept 78
Ⅱ．Gaddis's Narratives of Entropy 86
Ⅲ．The Dialogical Structure of Gaddis's Polyphonic Novels 115
Chapter Four The Salvation of the Entropic Postmodern Human World 133
Ⅰ．Establishing a New Religion in Postmodern Time 135
Ⅱ．Black Humor 149
Ⅲ．The Appeal to the Sublime 155
Ⅳ．To Live Deliberately 164
Chapter Five The Salvation of the Entropic Postmodern Artistic World 167
Ⅰ．Hybridization 168
Ⅱ．Carnivalization 180
Ⅲ．Reader's Participation in Gaddis's Tower of Babel 193
Ⅳ．Constructionism 203
Conclusion 211
Works Cited 224
附录 232
后记 233
Index 238