摘要
Abstract
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Joyce Carol Oates’s The Falls
1.2 Literature review
1.2.1 Overseas literature review
1.2.2 Domestic literature review
1.3 Merleau-Portty’s Body Phenomenology
1.3.1 Body phenomenology
1.3.2 Body phenomenology in literature
1.4 Thesis statement
Chapter 2 Denial of Body Unity in Materialization
2.1 Body materialization by the other
2.1.1 The virtual body
2.1.2 Ariah’s mirror body
2.2 Ariah’s denial of body unity
2.2.1 The separation of the body
2.2.2 The disconnection with the other
Chapter 3 Ariah’s Pursuit of Body Experience in Ambiguity
3.1 Ariah’s perception of the body
3.1.1 The temporality of Ariah’s body
3.1.2 The sexual being of Ariah’s body
3.2 Ariah’s ambiguous experience
3.2.1 Ariah’s red hair
3.2.2 Obstacles to Ariah’s freedom
Chapter 4 Reflection of Body in the Natural World
4.1 Ariah’s fear for nature
4.2 Children’s listening for the nature’s voice
Chapter 5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
声明