前言 Chapter I Introduction 1.1 A Critical Review of the Snopes Trilogy 1.2 A Theoretical Overview of Deconstruction 1.3 The Popic and Task of the Dissertation Chapter II The Hamlet:Signification in Motion 2.1 Signification in Motion: Saussure Deconstructed 2.2 Intrasemiotic Motion: Diff~rance in The Hamlet 2.3 Intersemiotic Motion: Supplement in The Hamlet 2.4 Transsemiotic Motion: Rhetoricity in The Hamlet Chapter III The Town : Text in Dissemination 3.1 Dissemination and Text 3.2 Intertextual Dissemination: The Town and its Yoknapatawpha sisters 3.3 Intratextual Dissemination in The Town 3.4 Extratextual Dissemination: The Town and Its Allusions Chapter IV The Mansion : Existence After Subversion 4.1 Existence in a Subverted World 4.2 Mink''s Subversion of " the Old Moster" and "them-they-it" 4.3 Linda''s Subversion of Her Generalissimos 4.4 Flem''s Subversion of His Own Existence Chapter V Conclusion Bibliography Acknowledgements Appendix I The Family Genealogy of the Snopeses Appendix II Faulkner Research in China: Retrospects and Prospects Appendix III The Sound and the Fury: Three Selves and Four Orders Appendix IV Structural Aesthetics of the Stream-of-Consciousness Fiction: A Case Study on "The Mark on the Wall" Appendix V A Corpus-Based Research on Faulkner''s Works