| Acknowledgements | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter One Doctorow and Self-Identity in Bildungsroman | 第14-29页 |
| 1.1 E.L.Doctorow and His Works | 第14-15页 |
| 1.2 Doctorow’s Depression-era Bildungsroman | 第15-18页 |
| 1.3 Literature Review | 第18-24页 |
| 1.4 Narrative and Self Construction: Theoretical Perspectives | 第24-29页 |
| Chapter Two Self Situated in Depression-era Bildungsroman | 第29-38页 |
| 2.1 Collective Process of Self-discovery | 第29-34页 |
| 2.1.1 Shared Experiences and Practices | 第30-32页 |
| 2.1.2 Common Emotional Fixation: The Self | 第32-34页 |
| 2.2 Individual Path Toward Self Construction | 第34-38页 |
| 2.2.1 Identity Anxiety Resulted from Lack | 第34-35页 |
| 2.2.2 Resistance to the Prescribed Self | 第35-38页 |
| Chapter Three Constructing Self in Narration | 第38-58页 |
| 3.1 First-person Retrospective Narration | 第39-48页 |
| 3.1.1 Intra-homodiegetic Narrator | 第40-44页 |
| 3.1.2 Concern for and Implication of Unreliability | 第44-48页 |
| 3.2 Focalization in the First-Person Mode | 第48-58页 |
| 3.2.1 Unique Play on Double Focalization | 第50-53页 |
| 3.2.2 Facets of Focalization in the First-Person Mode | 第53-58页 |
| Chapter Four Constructed Self: Success and Failure | 第58-72页 |
| 4.1 Collage in Loon Lake: Struggle for a Coherent Self-identity | 第59-62页 |
| 4.2 Linearity in World’s Fair: Expectations for a Promising Self-identity | 第62-66页 |
| 4.3 Reflexivity in Billy Bathgate: Identification with Old Self-identity | 第66-72页 |
| Conclusion | 第72-75页 |
| Notes | 第75-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-87页 |
| Appendix | 第87-88页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间论文发表情况 | 第88页 |
