| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第11-16页 |
| ·Introduction of Willa Cather | 第11-13页 |
| ·Introduction of the novel | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Experiment with Time | 第16-29页 |
| ·Antinomic: double linear structure | 第17-20页 |
| ·Conflated: the juxtaposition of the past and the present | 第20-25页 |
| ·Differential: different experience of time | 第25-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Experiment with Perspective | 第29-43页 |
| ·Dual narrative perspectives | 第30-35页 |
| ·Shifts in the third-person limited perspective | 第35-38页 |
| ·Contrast between third-person narration and first-person narration | 第38-43页 |
| Chapter 4 Manipulation of Narrative Information | 第43-55页 |
| ·Phenomena of delay and gap | 第44-46页 |
| ·Reason for the information gaps | 第46-49页 |
| ·The effects on the reader's interpretation | 第49-55页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| Notes | 第57-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-63页 |
