| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-27页 |
| Chapter One The Hamlet: Signification in Motion | 第27-58页 |
| 1. Signification in Motion: Saussure Deconstructed | 第27-29页 |
| 2. Intrasemiotic Motion: Différance in The Hamlet | 第29-42页 |
| 3. Intersemiotic Motion: Supplement in The Hamlet | 第42-53页 |
| 4. Transsemiotic Motion: Metaphoricity in The Hamlet | 第53-58页 |
| Chapter Two The Town: Text in Dissemination | 第58-88页 |
| 1. Dissemination and Text | 第58-62页 |
| 2. Intertextual Dissemination: The Town and its Yoknapatawpha sisters | 第62-75页 |
| 3. Intratextual Dissemination in The Town | 第75-80页 |
| 4. Extratextual Dissemination: The Town and Its Allusions | 第80-88页 |
| Chapter Three The Mansion: Existence After Subversion | 第88-118页 |
| 1. Existence deconstructed | 第88-91页 |
| 2. Mink’s Subversion of “the Old Moster”and “them-him-it” | 第91-98页 |
| 3. Linda’s Subversion of Her Generalissimos | 第98-109页 |
| 4. Flem’s Subversion of His Own Existence | 第109-118页 |
| Conclusion | 第118-126页 |
| Bibliography | 第126-134页 |
| Appendix: The Family Tree of the Snopeses | 第134-135页 |
