田納西‧威廉斯戲劇中父親的在場與缺席

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Acknowledgements
中文題要
Abstract
Introduction
Ⅰ. Timeless Oedipal revolts
Ⅱ. Social Oedipal revolutions since the mid-19th century
Ⅲ. Hopes of redemption
Ⅳ. Tennessee Williams as a modernist dramatist
Ⅴ. Tennessees complex relationship with his own father C. C.
Ⅵ. The father in Williams theatre
Chapter 1　The Glass Menagerie： The PostPatricide Existential Anarchy
Ⅰ. Timeless Oedipal revolts
Ⅱ. The disjointed world as a result of the absence of the father
Ⅲ. Absence of the father as an expression of bitter disillusionment
Chaoter 2　A Streetcar Named Desire： The Dead Father as a Toxic Legacy
Ⅰ. Blanches visitation and her tragic ending
Ⅱ. Return of the dead father and his re-death——a metaphorical reading
Ⅲ. Cultural significance of the fathers loss： decline of the degraded Apollonian rule and the old Europe
Chapter 3　Cat on a Hot Tin Roof： The Glorious Comeback of the Father as a Tribute to American Pragmatism
Ⅰ. Maggie——the Cat on the hot tin roof
Ⅱ. Brick——the melancholic prince
Ⅲ. The fathers saving grace and the "brick-wall-breaking operation"
Ⅳ. A dramatized tribute to King Big Daddy and his America
Chapter 4　The Night of the Iguana ： Communication and Mutual Help Replacing the Quest for the Father
Ⅰ. Everyone is hell and is in hell
Ⅱ. Everyone can be someones angel
Ⅲ. Williams attempt to liquidate his old self
Ⅳ. Communicative rationality as the saving grace right at hand
Ⅴ. Dethroned father figure integrated into the cycle of redemption
Conclusion