| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Table of Contents | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第13-18页 |
| ·Introduction to Susan Sontag | 第13-16页 |
| ·Biographical Information | 第13-14页 |
| ·Literary Achivement | 第14-15页 |
| ·International Recognition | 第15-16页 |
| ·Introduction to the Novel In America | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第18-22页 |
| ·Overseas Researches on Sontag and Her Novel In America | 第18-20页 |
| ·Domestic Researches on Sontag and Her Novel In America | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Three SONTAG'S CRITICAL THEORY | 第22-39页 |
| ·Against Interpretation | 第22-29页 |
| ·Against Conventional Interpretation | 第22-25页 |
| ·Proposal of "Against Interpretation" | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Meaning of "Against Interpretation" | 第26-29页 |
| ·Against Arbitrary Simplistic Interpretation | 第26-28页 |
| ·Artistic Works as An Experience | 第28-29页 |
| ·New Sensibility | 第29-39页 |
| ·The Proposal of "New Sensibility" | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Relationship Between "New Sensibility" and "Against Interpretation" | 第31-32页 |
| ·The connotation of "New Sensibility" | 第32-39页 |
| ·Unique Aesthetic Experience | 第32-36页 |
| ·Against the Capitalist Consumption Aesthetics | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Four INTERPRETATION BETWEEN SONTAG' CRITICAL THEORY AND THE NOVEL IN AMERICA | 第39-61页 |
| ·Application of Multi-narration Voice to Oppose Interpretation | 第39-45页 |
| ·The First-person Narration | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Third-person Narration: | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Second Person Narration | 第44-45页 |
| ·Multisubjects against Interpretation | 第45-51页 |
| ·Outbreak of Utopia | 第45-48页 |
| ·American Individualism | 第48-51页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to American Individualism | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Influence of American Individualism on In America | 第49-51页 |
| ·Different Narrative Forms to Present Sontag's New Sensibility | 第51-61页 |
| ·Bracket | 第52页 |
| ·Dialogue | 第52-53页 |
| ·Letter | 第53-55页 |
| ·Diary | 第55-57页 |
| ·Stream of Consciousness | 第57-59页 |
| ·Monologue | 第59-61页 |
| ·Inner Monologue | 第59页 |
| ·Dramatic Monologue | 第59-61页 |
| Chapter FIVE CONCLUSION | 第61-63页 |
| Works Cited | 第63-66页 |
| Appendix I | 第66-67页 |
