| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8页 |
| Introduction | 第10-18页 |
| Chapter One Consumerism and Garbage Matters in the Postmodern Era | 第18-28页 |
| 1.1 Consumption and Alienation in Consumer Society | 第18-24页 |
| 1.2 Ghostly Presence: Garbage in the Age of Consumerism | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter Two Garbage as Artwork in Ragtime | 第28-39页 |
| 2.1 Entropic Nature of Consumerism in the Novel | 第28-32页 |
| 2.2 A Power for Establishing Meaning: Ragtime Music | 第32-35页 |
| 2.3 An Artistic Utopia via Tateh’s Silhouette Books | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter Three Garbage beyond Artwork in Homer & Langley | 第39-48页 |
| 3.1 Impotence of Artistic Power: Langley’s Compulsive Hoarding | 第39-42页 |
| 3.2 A Futile Effort to Seek Meaning: The Collyers’ Urban Eremitism | 第42-45页 |
| 3.3 Dystopian Impulse in Garbage | 第45-48页 |
| Conclusion | 第48-50页 |
| Bibliography | 第50-54页 |
