| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One:Controversies in Reading Don DeLillo and Tom LeClair's Groundbreaking System Novel Theory | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter Two:Me,Mass and Meaning:A Triangle of Occupations in 1980s' America | 第15-33页 |
| ·Me:"I" VS "i" | 第15-19页 |
| ·Mass:American Magic and Dread | 第19-24页 |
| ·Meaning:On the Edge of Belief | 第24-33页 |
| Chapter Three:A Suite of American Noises | 第33-47页 |
| ·A Splendid Junk Heap:American Noise of Waste | 第33-40页 |
| ·Families Based on Quicksand | 第33-35页 |
| ·Laboratory-Born Plagues | 第35-37页 |
| ·Brain-Sucking at the Information Age | 第37-39页 |
| ·Markets Becoming Mecca | 第39-40页 |
| ·Simulacrum Everywhere:American Noise of Phantom | 第40-43页 |
| ·How the Contemporary Man Uses and Is Used By His Objects:American Noise of Meditation | 第43-47页 |
| Conclusion | 第47-50页 |
| Bibliography | 第50-52页 |
