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Classified Index: CODE: 10075 U. D. C: NO: A Dissertation for the Degree of M. Arts Destruction and Rebirth ——A Feminist Narratological Reading of Du Maurier’s Rebecca Candidate: Wang Yongjun Supervisor: Prof. Zhang Jinxia Academic Degree Applied for: Master of Arts Specialty: English Language and Literature University: Hebei University Date of Oral Examination: May, 2014 Abstract Abstract Daphne du Maurier is a celebrated British novelist in the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1938, Rebecca, du Maurier’s best-known work, gains the enduring popularity for its engrossing plot full of romance and suspense and its unique narrative strategy, which uses the real figure to serve as a foil to that unacted one. Rebecca was published in 1930s ， in which there was a transitional period for women to fight against their traditional identity anxiously. Based on the theory of feminist narratology and the theory of narrative voice put forward by Susan Lanser and the conception of Genettes narrative focalization, this thesis tries to combine the novel’s theme with its narrative form effectively. Through the detailed analysis of Rebecca ’s unique narrative voice, narrative focalization and narrative structure, it makes a meticulous and complete comparison of the different images of the heroine “I” and Rebecca. Firstly, in this novel, there exist double narrative voices, namely, the submissive voice of the heroine “I” and the re