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厦门大学学位论文原创性声明及著作权使用声明
Chapter One Willa Cather, her Life and Works
1.1 Cather's Career-Oriented Life
1.2 Cather's Literary Works
1.3 The Critical Reviews about My Antonia
Chapter Two Two Autobiographical Characters in My Antonia
2.1 Facts about My Antonia
2.2 Jim Burden, Willa Cather's Representative Voice
2.3 Lena Lingard, a Fictional Replica of Willa Cather
Chapter Three A Patriarchal Narrator and Women's Voices
3.1 Jim Burden's Manuscript, Evidence of Cather's Patriarchal Ideology
3.1.1 Cather's Catering to Male-dominating Literary Tradition
3.1.2 Jim Burden's Distorted Text, Cather's Patriarchal Expression
3.2 Jim Burden, an Unreliable Narrator
3.3 Antonia Shimerda—a Traditional Woman with Untraditional Ideas
3.3.1 Antonia's Claim for Freedom and Judgment of Herself
3.3.2 Antonia's Construction of Her Individualistic Identity
3.4 Lena Lingard—Cather's Feminist Voice
3.4.1 Lena Lingard—a Woman of Head, not a Woman of Heart
3.4.2 Lena Lingard's Economic Power and Social Independence
3.5 Other Strong Women in My Antonia
Chapter Four Writing Techniques
4.1 The Introduction, Indication of a Fanciful Narrator
4.2 A Double-Layer Narrative Structure and Various Points of View
Chapter Five Cather's Duality and Possible Reasons
5.1 Cather's Duality—Patriarchal Ideology and Feminist Practice
5.2Similar Dualities in O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark
5.3 Possible Reasons for Cather's Duality
5.3.1 Patriarchal Environment and Connection with Strong Women
5.3.2 Career Aspiration
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgements
