| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第13-17页 |
| Introduction | 第17-31页 |
| Chapter One Within the Vietnam War | 第31-51页 |
| 1. The Vietnam Syndrome | 第31-38页 |
| (1) Definition of the Vietnam Syndrome | 第31-32页 |
| (2) The Civil-rights Movement, the Women's Movement and the Counterculture | 第32-36页 |
| (3) The New Left | 第36-38页 |
| 2. The War in Viet Nam | 第38-51页 |
| (1) Views of Stone and O'Brien on the Vietnam War | 第39页 |
| (2) Traditional and Postmodernist Characteristics of the Vietnam War | 第39-45页 |
| A. Brutality and Absurdity | 第39-42页 |
| B. Indeterminacy | 第42-45页 |
| (3) A Separate Peace | 第45-51页 |
| Chapter Two Beyond the Vietnam War | 第51-101页 |
| 1. From Viet Nam to Vietnam—Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | 第51-72页 |
| (1) Reexperiencing Traumatic Events—Stone's Helping | 第53-56页 |
| (2) Avoidance of Stimuli Associated with the Trauma—Stone's Outerbridge Reach, O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Northern Lights | 第56-66页 |
| (3) Increased Arousal—O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods | 第66-69页 |
| (4) Trauma Cannot be Healed—Ways of Eliminating the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | 第69-72页 |
| 2. From Viet Nam to the U.S.A | 第72-82页 |
| (1) Stone's Dog Soldiers: Vietnam—The United States | 第72-76页 |
| (2) O'Brien's The Nuclear Age: The Vietnam War—The Nuclear Age | 第76-82页 |
| 3. From Viet Nam to Central America——Stone's A Flag for Sunrise: Viet Nam—Tecan | 第82-91页 |
| 4. From the Vietnam War to the War of Life——O'Brien's Tomcat in Love: The Vietnam War—The War of Life Itself | 第91-101页 |
| Chapter Three Robert Stone: From Neorealism to Postmodernism | 第101-125页 |
| 1. Robert Stone in the Postmodern Context | 第101-103页 |
| 2. Neorealistic Aesthetic Representation | 第103-115页 |
| (1) Combination of Realistic and Neorealistic Plots and Characters | 第103-108页 |
| A. Realistic Plots and Characters | 第103-105页 |
| B. Neorealistic Plots and Characters | 第105-108页 |
| (2) Philosophical Naturalism | 第108-112页 |
| (3) Modernistic Techniques | 第112-114页 |
| (4) Mythological and Biblical Reconstruction | 第114-115页 |
| 3. Postmodernist Tendency | 第115-125页 |
| (1) Popular Culture | 第116-118页 |
| (2) From Construction to Deconstruction | 第118-120页 |
| (3) Surrealism and Metafiction | 第120-125页 |
| Chapter Four Tim O'Brien: From Postmodernism to New Historicism | 第125-155页 |
| 1. Tim O'Brien in the Postmodernist Aura | 第125页 |
| 2. Metafiction | 第125-145页 |
| (1) Juxtaposition of Narrative and Commentary Discourses | 第126-130页 |
| (2) Open Endings | 第130-131页 |
| (3) Parody | 第131-132页 |
| (4) Fragmented Collage | 第132-137页 |
| (5) Random Sequences of Time and Space | 第137-141页 |
| (6) Blurring of Reality and Fiction | 第141-142页 |
| (7) Anti-genre | 第142-145页 |
| 3. New Historicism | 第145-155页 |
| (1) Definition | 第145-146页 |
| (2) Historicity of the Text of the My Lai Massacre | 第146-150页 |
| (3) Textuality of the History of the My Lai Massacre | 第150-155页 |
| Conclusion | 第155-157页 |
| Works Cited | 第157-164页 |
| Index | 第164-167页 |