Chapter 0ne Introduction
1.1 A Brief Review of the Critical Reponses to Willa Cather's Novels
1.2 A Survey of Impressionism in Painting
1.3 A Bird's-eye View of the 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 Desigll-uxtaposition
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 Narrator in My Antonia
3.3.2 The Point of View in A Lost Lady
Chapter Four The Conscious Selection of Material
4.1 Cather's Artistic Pursuit
4.2 The Selection of the Material
Chapter Five Cather and Literary Impressionism
5.1 Cather and Impressionism
5.2 The Analogy of Window
Chapter Six Conclusion
Bibliography
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