| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| 1.1 Research Background on Cormac McCarthy and His Works | 第9-12页 |
| 1.2 Research Background on Rhetoric Narrative Theory | 第12-13页 |
| 1.3 Objectives and Significance of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| 1.4 Organization of This Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-24页 |
| 2.1 Introduction to the Author | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2 Introduction to The Road | 第17-19页 |
| 2.3 Previous Interpretations of The Road | 第19-21页 |
| 2.4 Booth and The Rhetoric of Fiction | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Three Analysis of Points of View in The Road | 第24-40页 |
| 3.1 Point of View as Rhetoric Device | 第24-26页 |
| 3.2 Points of view in The Road | 第26-38页 |
| 3.2.1 The First-Person Point of View | 第26-29页 |
| 3.2.2 Imperative Voices of First-person Narrativein The Road | 第29-31页 |
| 3.2.3 The Third-person Limited Omniscient Point of View | 第31-35页 |
| 3.2.4 Stream of Consciousness | 第35-38页 |
| 3.3 Rhetoric Effects of Shifting Points of view | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Four: Implied Author in The Road | 第40-51页 |
| 4.1 Booth's Interpretation of the Implied Author | 第40-44页 |
| 4.1.1 Dramatized Narrator and Undramatized Narrator | 第41-42页 |
| 4.1.2 The Implied Author in The Road | 第42-44页 |
| 4.2 Control of Distance | 第44-51页 |
| 4.2.1 Distance between the Implied Author and the Character | 第45-48页 |
| 4.2.2 Distance between the Implied Author and the Reader | 第48-51页 |
| Chapter Five: Moral Judgments in The Road | 第51-60页 |
| 5.1 Booth's Theory in Moral Judgments of Fiction | 第51-52页 |
| 5.2 Morality Reflected in the Impersonal Narration in The Road | 第52-60页 |
| 5.2.1 The Selflessness of Fatherhood | 第53-55页 |
| 5.2.2 Human's Strive for Survival | 第55-57页 |
| 5.2.3 Human's Insistence on a Bright Future | 第57-60页 |
| Conclusion: Major Findings, Implications and Limitations | 第60-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-65页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第65-66页 |
| 简历 | 第66-67页 |
| 攻读学位期间所发表的论文 | 第67页 |
