| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第7-9页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第9-15页 |
| ·PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY | 第9-10页 |
| ·LAYOUT O THE THESIS | 第10-12页 |
| ·LITERATURE REVIEW | 第12-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO RALPH ELLISON AND JAZZ | 第15-25页 |
| ·THE BACKGROUND: JAZZ AGE AND HARLEM RENAISSANCE | 第15-17页 |
| ·ELLISON’S DREAM OF BEING A JAZZ MUSICIAN | 第17-19页 |
| ·JAZZ—METAPHOR OF AMERICAN CULTURE | 第19-22页 |
| ·Diverse Resources of USA and Jazz | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Expression of Democracy and African-American Identity through Jazz | 第20-22页 |
| ·JAZZ AND ELLISON’S LITERARY CAREER | 第22-25页 |
| ·Literary Ideas Based on Jazz | 第22-23页 |
| ·Interpretation of Literary Works from the Perspective of Jazz | 第23-25页 |
| CHAPTER THREE NARRATIVE FUNCTION OF JAZZ IN INVISIBLE MAN | 第25-42页 |
| ·THE JAZZ-LIKE STRUCTURE: PROLOGUE –BODY –EPILOGUE | 第25-26页 |
| ·NARRATIVE MODE: FIRST PERSON SINGULAR AND BLUES WAY OF NARRATION | 第26-28页 |
| ·BORROWED TECHNIQUES OF NARRATION FROM JAZZ PERFORMANCE | 第28-42页 |
| ·Improvisation | 第29-32页 |
| ·Call-and-Response | 第32-37页 |
| ·Riffing | 第37-42页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR THE MEANING-CONSTRUCTION ROLE OF JAZZ IN INVISIBLE MAN | 第42-51页 |
| ·ENVIRONMENTS AND CHARACTERS WITH JAZZ FLAVOR | 第42-44页 |
| ·JAZZ PENETRATING THE WHOLE NOVEL | 第44-51页 |
| ·Jazz in Prologue | 第45-47页 |
| ·Jazz in Some Key Points | 第47-49页 |
| ·Jazz in the Climax and Ending Part | 第49-51页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE THE FUNCTION OF JAZZ IN DEEPENING THE THEME OF INVISIBLE MAN | 第51-57页 |
| ·MULTIPLE THEMES OF THE NOVEL | 第51-52页 |
| ·JAZZ AS THEME SONG OF THE NOVEL | 第52-53页 |
| ·LIBERAL SPIRIT IN QUEST OF SELF | 第53-57页 |
| ·The Painful Journey to Establish Self | 第53-55页 |
| ·The Moderate Way to Realize Self | 第55-57页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第57-59页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第59-60页 |
| NOTES | 第60-61页 |
| REFERENCES | 第61-65页 |
| APPENDIX | 第65页 |
