| Abstract | 第1-11页 |
| 摘要 | 第11-22页 |
| A Note on Abbreviations | 第22-23页 |
| Introduction | 第23-45页 |
| 1.Paul Auster's Life and Career | 第24-30页 |
| 2.Paul Auster in France and the United states | 第30-32页 |
| 3.Paul Auster in China | 第32-33页 |
| 4.The Theoretical Framework,Structure,and Main Contents of the Dissertation | 第33-45页 |
| Chapter 1 Major Quests in Paul Auster's Poetic World | 第45-75页 |
| ·The Quest for Father | 第47-57页 |
| ·The Theme of Father and Son in Jewish Culture | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Quest for Father in The Invention of Solitude | 第49-54页 |
| ·The Extension of Father Quest in Auster's Later Fiction | 第54-57页 |
| ·The Quest for Redemption and Rebirth | 第57-69页 |
| ·Suffering and Redemption in Jewish Culture | 第58-60页 |
| ·The Quest for Redemption in The Book of Memory | 第60-63页 |
| ·Symbolic Death and Rebirth from the Existentialist Perspective | 第63-69页 |
| ·The Image of Room:Duality of Solitude | 第69-75页 |
| ·Negative Connotation of Solitude and Death | 第69-72页 |
| ·Positive Connotation of Creativeness and Rebirth | 第72-75页 |
| Chapter 2 The Quest for Freedom in The Music of Chance | 第75-115页 |
| ·Freedom and Power of Subjection | 第77-85页 |
| ·Freedom as a Philosophical Problem | 第77-82页 |
| ·Foucault's Notion of Normalization and Surveillance | 第82-85页 |
| ·The Quest for Freedom on the Road | 第85-101页 |
| ·Absolute Freedom and a Slave Pursuer | 第85-89页 |
| ·The Duality of Chance | 第89-94页 |
| ·From Freedom to Containment | 第94-101页 |
| ·FFeedom under Power Control | 第101-115页 |
| ·External Surveillante and Normalization | 第102-105页 |
| ·Nashe's Self-Surveillance and Self-Normalization | 第105-106页 |
| ·The Acquirement of Self-Awareness and a Limit Without Escape | 第106-111页 |
| ·The Disillusionment of the American Dream in and Beyond The Music of Chance | 第111-115页 |
| Chapter 3 The Quests for Knowledge and Identity | 第115-151页 |
| ·The Quest for Knowledge iII The New York Trilogy | 第118-133页 |
| ·Rationalistic Assumptions of Detective Fiction | 第118-120页 |
| ·The Fall of Language | 第120-127页 |
| ·The Failed Quest:A Case Without Closure | 第127-133页 |
| ·The Quest for Self and Identity | 第133-151页 |
| ·The Missing Person | 第133-137页 |
| ·The Double Self and Exchanged Identity | 第137-145页 |
| ·Historical Identity and Identity Constructed in Relationships | 第145-151页 |
| Chapter 4 The Anti-Genre Narrative Mode of Paul Auster's Quests | 第151-184页 |
| ·Postmodernist Mixture of Biogruphy and Autobiography in The Invention of Solitude | 第152-161页 |
| ·The Genre of Biography and Autobiography | 第152-154页 |
| ·Anti-Biography and Anti-Autobiography in The Invention of Solitude | 第154-161页 |
| ·Self-Multiplication in Characterization | 第154-157页 |
| ·Blurring the Border Between Fact and Fiction | 第157-161页 |
| ·A Metaphysical Detective Fiction:The New York Trilogy | 第161-175页 |
| ·Traditional Detective Fiction:Origin and Development | 第161-163页 |
| ·Metaphysical Detective Fiction:Definition and Themes | 第163-166页 |
| ·MetaphySical Detective Conventions in The New York Trilogy | 第166-175页 |
| ·Labyrinthine World of Text | 第166-169页 |
| ·Dubious Authorship | 第169-175页 |
| ·The Anti-Genre Narrative in The Music of Chance and In the Country of Last Things | 第175-179页 |
| ·Reflections on Auster's Writing:The Quest for Meaning | 第179-184页 |
| Conclusion | 第184-192页 |
| Appendix | 第192-194页 |
| References | 第194-205页 |
| Index | 第205-207页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第207-208页 |
