“混沌”是当代自然科学、社会科学与人文研究的重要概念，不仅与后现代主义、空间和空间形式等相关理论交叉融合，也与中国传统哲学及文化思维有多维关联。本书主要依据混沌学、后现代主义以及空间等相关理论，采用辩证的批评方法，将历史分析、文化研究与叙事内容、叙事结构以及话语分析相结合，全面聚焦麦卡锡小说的“混沌”世界，试图立体化和全方位地探讨麦卡锡小说中混沌的艺术世界、人类世界及自然世界，在研究内容上走在国内外麦卡锡小说研究的前沿。 本书对麦卡锡小说的混沌世界进行了详细的界定、拓展和分类，不仅在理论上拓宽了混沌学的研究空间，也为全面把握麦卡锡小说艺术的复杂性，拓展了一条可行的研究思路，无论是从混沌学文学批评研究框架的确立，还是对当代美国作家麦卡锡的小说研究，都具有重要的学术价值和里程碑式的意义。

当西方遇见东方——混沌思维与外国文学研究
Abstract
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. McCarthy's Literary Career and Achievements
II. McCarthy Studies at Home and Abroad
III. The Framework of Chaos in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction
Chapter One Chaos, Spatiality, Postmodernism and McCarthy
I. Chaos and Chaos Theory
II. Chinese Chaos: The Book of Changes
Ill. Literary Criticism and Chaos Theory
IV. Space, Spatial Form and Chaos
Chapter Two Order, Disorder and Nonlinearity: Chaos and Wilderness
I. Epistemic Shift
II. From Civilization to Wilderness: Nonlinearity in Child of God
III. Orderly Disorder and Disorderly Order: Violence in Blood Meridian
Chapter Three Iteration, Indeterminacy and the Butterfly Effect:Narrative Strategies as Chaos
I. Iteration and "Chaos Sandwich": Blood Meridian
I1. Indeterminacy in The Road
III. Chance and Chaos: the Butterfly Effect in No Country for Old Men
Chapter Four Strange Attractor, Fractals and Self-Similarities:Spatial Configuration as Chaos
I. Strange Attractors, Fractals and Dynamic Spatiality
II.Journey, Dream and Chaos: Strange Attractor in All the Pretty Horses
III. "All Tales are One": Fractals in The Crossing
Conclusion
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
致小说家科麦克·麦卡锡