| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-21页 |
| ·The Significance of the Target Author and Text | 第10-13页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第13-17页 |
| ·Methodology and Organization | 第17-21页 |
| Chapter Two A Modified Omniscient Narrative in Seize the Day | 第21-36页 |
| ·Narrator and Voice | 第22-28页 |
| ·An Omniscient Third-person Narrator | 第22-24页 |
| ·Unstable Narrative Voice | 第24-28页 |
| ·Focalization | 第28-34页 |
| ·Free-focalization and Its Adjustment | 第29-32页 |
| ·Rhetorical Effects of the Focalization | 第32-34页 |
| ·A Modified Omniscient Narrative Mode | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Three Temporal Relationship in Seize the Day | 第36-49页 |
| ·Major Aspects of Temporal Manipulation | 第36-45页 |
| ·Order of Time | 第37-40页 |
| ·Duration of Time | 第40-43页 |
| ·Frequency of Time | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Influence of Time Manipulation | 第45-49页 |
| ·Relationship between Temporal Structure and Narrator | 第46-47页 |
| ·Relationship between Temporal Structure and Focalization | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Four Audience Engagement in Narrative Progression | 第49-61页 |
| ·Engagement of the Three Kinds of Audience | 第50-55页 |
| ·Narrative Audience | 第51-52页 |
| ·Authorial Audience | 第52-53页 |
| ·Flesh-and-Blood Audience | 第53-55页 |
| ·Narrative Progression | 第55-61页 |
| ·Instabilities | 第56-57页 |
| ·Tensions | 第57-61页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第61-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-70页 |
