序
前言
Abbreviations of Joan Didion's Works
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Chapter One Joan Didion: the Precursor of New Journalism
Chapter Two Crisis of Narrative in American Writing and Didion's Moral and Political Concerns in Her Nonfiction
Crisis of Narrative
Didion's Moral Concern in Slouching
Towards Bethlehem
Things Are Falling Apart: The White A/bum
Didion's Political Concerns
Didion's International Political Concern as
Shown in Salvador and Miami
Didion's Domestic Political Concern as
Shown in Political Fictions
Chapter Three Women's Victimization and "Didion's Women"in language Games
The World Is Atomized
The Players of Language Games
SeW-regaining Processes
Chapter Four Didion's Voice and Cultural Boundary Blurring in Her Novels
The Blurring of High and Low Culture
The Voice of the Author in the Novel
Facts Meet Fiction
Chapter Five Lexical Exhibition, Fragments and Minimalism in Didion's Fiction and Nonfiction
Lexic al Exhition
Catalogue Structure
Syntactic Features
Figures of Speech
Repetition
Heteroglossia
Fragments
Minimalism
Conclusion
Works Cited
附录一
附录二
后记
Index