| Acknowledgements | 第1-3页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 中文提要 | 第5-7页 |
| Synopsis | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-19页 |
| ·F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby | 第12-14页 |
| ·The Theme of The Great Gatsby | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Purpose of This Investigation | 第14-15页 |
| ·Literary Stylistics as A Discipline | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Structure of This Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter 2 An Overview of Literary Stylistics | 第19-40页 |
| ·Literary Language | 第19-23页 |
| ·Foregrounding Theory | 第21-23页 |
| ·Detecting Literary Significance from Linguistic Form: An Example | 第23-26页 |
| ·Dimensions in Stylistic Analysis of Fiction | 第26-40页 |
| ·A Checklist from A Micro Perspective | 第26-27页 |
| ·Macro Dimensions | 第27-40页 |
| ·Point of View | 第29-34页 |
| ·Third-person Point of View | 第30-31页 |
| ·Omniscient Third-person Point of View | 第30页 |
| ·Limited Omniscient Third-person Point of View | 第30-31页 |
| ·Objective Third-person Point of View | 第31页 |
| ·First-person Point of View | 第31-33页 |
| ·Shift of Point of View | 第33-34页 |
| ·Speech Presentation | 第34-40页 |
| ·Direct Speech (DS) and Indirect Speech (IS) | 第35-36页 |
| ·Free Direct Speech (FDS) and Free Indirect Speech (FIS) | 第36-37页 |
| ·Narrative Report of Speech Acts (NRSA) | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter 3 Stylistic Analysis of The Great Gatsby | 第40-82页 |
| ·Micro Perspective of The Style of The Great Gatsby | 第41-58页 |
| ·Lexical Features | 第41-51页 |
| ·Lexical Items and The Depiction of American Society | 第41-44页 |
| ·Lexical Features and Characterization | 第44-47页 |
| ·Lexical Clusters | 第44页 |
| ·Lexical Clusters and Depiction of Gatsby | 第44-46页 |
| ·Lexical Clusters and Depiction of Tom Buchanan | 第46-47页 |
| ·Lexical Deviation | 第47-48页 |
| ·Word Connotations and Thematic Significance | 第48-51页 |
| ·Color Connotations | 第48-50页 |
| ·Guest List and Its Connotations | 第50-51页 |
| ·Syntactical Features | 第51-58页 |
| ·Narrative Sentence Type | 第51-53页 |
| ·Contrasts of Registers | 第53-55页 |
| ·Phrasal Level | 第55-58页 |
| ·The Repeated Use of Appositional Phrase | 第55-57页 |
| ·The Use of Prepositional Phrase | 第57-58页 |
| ·Macro Perspective of The Style of The Great Gatsby | 第58-82页 |
| ·Aspect of Point of View | 第58-69页 |
| ·Limited First-person Witness Narrative | 第59-62页 |
| ·Some Shifts of Narrative Perspective | 第62-69页 |
| ·Narrating I & Experiencing I | 第62-64页 |
| ·Alternating Third-person Point of View | 第64-67页 |
| ·Switching to Second-person Point of View | 第67-69页 |
| ·Modes of Speech Presentation | 第69-82页 |
| ·Direct Speech (DS) | 第69-72页 |
| ·Indirect Speech (IS) | 第72-75页 |
| ·Free Indirect Speech (FIS) | 第75-77页 |
| ·Free Direct Speech (FDS) | 第77-79页 |
| ·Narrative Report of Speech Acts (NRSA) | 第79-82页 |
| Conclusion | 第82-84页 |
| Bibliography | 第84-88页 |
| 个人简历 | 第88页 |