| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abbreviations | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第8-13页 |
| Abstract in English | 第13-19页 |
| Introduction | 第19-25页 |
| I. Historical and literary background after World War II toward the 1960s in America | 第25-30页 |
| A.T he conformist society in the post-war years | 第25-27页 |
| B.L iterary climate | 第27-30页 |
| II. Fantasy as the spiritual landscape | 第30-60页 |
| A. The great refusal of fantasy | 第30-35页 |
| 1. The conflict between instinct and reality | 第31-32页 |
| 2. Fantasy: the return of the repressed | 第32-34页 |
| 3. Fantasy in art | 第34-35页 |
| B. Fantasy in Sontag’s novels | 第35-60页 |
| 1. Life as a psychic existence in The Benefactor and Death Kit | 第36-46页 |
| 2. Fantasy as psychic drama of the unconsciousness | 第46-53页 |
| 3. Fantasy as disburdenment | 第53-60页 |
| III.Spirit of negation | 第60-89页 |
| A. From affirmation to negation to liberation | 第60-64页 |
| B. Negation in Genesis | 第64-67页 |
| C. Negation in the traditional novel: a case study | 第67-76页 |
| D. Negation of language in Sontag’s novels | 第76-89页 |
| IV. A new sensibility | 第89-113页 |
| A. One-dimensional man in advanced industrial society- | 第89-92页 |
| B. The call for a new sensibility | 第92-98页 |
| C. Form vs. content: Sontag’s criticism on the burden of content | 第98-101页 |
| D. Sontag’s new sensibility incorporated with technology | 第101-103页 |
| E. The new sensibility in Sontag’s novels | 第103-113页 |
| 1. Anti-interpretation strategy in The Benefactor | 第103-105页 |
| 2. The formal ingenuity in Death Kit | 第105-113页 |
| V. The sensibility in the 19205 and the 19605 in comparison | 第113-142页 |
| A. Graff’s criticism of Sontag and Marcuse | 第113-116页 |
| B. The temper in the 19205 | 第116-131页 |
| 1. The influence of the European art | 第117-119页 |
| 2. The repudiation of Puritanism | 第119-120页 |
| 3. The consequences of World War I | 第120-122页 |
| 4. New discoveries in science | 第122-126页 |
| 5. The literary retreat | 第126-131页 |
| C. The sensibility in the 19605 | 第131-142页 |
| 1. Significant shifts in America after World War II | 第132-134页 |
| 2. New genres as resistance to the functional specializations | 第134-137页 |
| 3. Cultural tastes as self-identification | 第137-138页 |
| 4. Ceaseless cultural search for a new sensibility | 第138-142页 |
| Conclusion | 第142-145页 |
| List of works cited | 第145-150页 |
