Chapter One Introduction
1.1. A Brief Review of the Critical Reponses to Willa Cather's Novels
1.2. A Survey oflmpressionism in Painting
1.3. A Bird's-eye View ofthe Situation between Subject and Object in Traditional Paintings
1.4. A General Introduction to Literary Impressionism
Chapter Two The Subjective Consciousness in Color
2.1. The Use of Color to Paint Pictures in Cather's Mind's Eye
2.2. The Use of Color to Suggest Emotion in O Pioneers! and My Antonia
Chapter Three The Composition
3.1. The Dot Composition
3.1.1. Simplification
3.1.2. Impressions as the Flow of Emotion in My Antonia
3.2. The Line: The Conscious Design-Juxtaposition
3.2.1. Juxtaposition in The Professor 's House
3.2.2. Juxtaposition as a Means of Spatializing Fictional Structure in The Professor 's House
3.3. The Tableau: The Inner Point of View
3.3.1. Jim as the First-person Nanator in My Antonia
3.3.2. The Point of View in A Lost /ady
Chapter Four The Conscious Selection ofMaterial
4.1. Cather's Artistic Pursuit
4.2. The Selection of the Material
Chapter Five Cather and Literarylmpressionism
5.1. Cather and Impressionism
5.2. The Analogy of Window
Chapter Six Conclusion
Bibliography
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