| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-18页 |
| 1. Kurt Vonnegut and His Literary Achievements | 第9-11页 |
| 2. Breakfast of Champions and Its Critical Reception | 第11-15页 |
| 3. Theoretical Basis and Structure | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter One Representing Depthlessness: Formal Strategies in Breakfast of Champions | 第18-32页 |
| ·Visual Cultural Elements: Pictures and "Sounds" | 第19-23页 |
| ·Explanatory Contents | 第23-28页 |
| ·Reflective Images | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter Two The Waning of Free Will: Depthlessness of Characterization in Breakfast of Champions | 第32-46页 |
| ·Kilgore Trout's Free Will Worn out by the Depthless Reality | 第33-39页 |
| ·Free Will―a Mirage for Dwayne Hoover | 第39-41页 |
| ·Philboyd Studge's Waning of Free Will | 第41-46页 |
| Chapter Three Overcoming Depthlessness: Vonnegut's Outcry Against Postmodern Flatness | 第46-58页 |
| ·Postmodern Spiritual Wasteland and Vonnegut's Humanistic Outcry | 第47-50页 |
| ·Environmental Pollution and Vonnegut's Humanistic Outcry | 第50-53页 |
| ·Social Inequality and Vonnegut's Humanistic Outcry | 第53-58页 |
| Conclusion | 第58-60页 |
| Works Cited | 第60-62页 |
