E.L.多克托罗历史小说的后现代派艺术研究

　　《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。

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