| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Content | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-21页 |
| ·Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five | 第9-12页 |
| ·A review of major criticism on Slaughterhouse-Five | 第12-14页 |
| ·The theory of Trauma | 第14-19页 |
| ·The origin and meaning of Trauma | 第14-16页 |
| ·The theoretical development | 第16-18页 |
| ·The current research on Trauma Theory | 第18-19页 |
| ·Thesis and overview of the thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two War Trauma reflected in the Plots | 第21-28页 |
| ·Non-linear narrative | 第21-23页 |
| ·Anti-climax | 第23-25页 |
| ·The combination of three worlds | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three The Historical and Social trauma Reflected in characterization | 第28-42页 |
| ·Historical trauma: the bombing of Dresden | 第28-29页 |
| ·Kurt Vonnegut's trauma | 第29-34页 |
| ·Kurt Vonnegut as a POW | 第29-30页 |
| ·Kurt Vonnegut as the narrator | 第30-31页 |
| ·The co-existence of truth and lie | 第31-32页 |
| ·Self-treatment by writing | 第32-34页 |
| ·Billy Pilgrim's trauma | 第34-38页 |
| ·His childhood trauma | 第34-35页 |
| ·Anti-hero during WW Ⅱ | 第35-37页 |
| ·His post-war life as a schizoid | 第37-38页 |
| ·Self-treatment by time travel and imagined Eden | 第38-39页 |
| ·Social trauma:the broken American dream and loss of social value | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter Four War Trauma reflected in Rhetorics | 第42-47页 |
| ·Parody | 第42-43页 |
| ·Repetition | 第43-44页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第44-47页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| Works Cited | 第49-54页 |
| Publications | 第54页 |
