| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第13-17页 |
| Abbreviations of Vonnegut's Works | 第17-19页 |
| Introduction | 第19-30页 |
| Chapter 1 Vonnegut's Deconstruction of the Real World | 第30-46页 |
| A． Vonnegut Deconstructs Science and Technology | 第30-36页 |
| 1． Machine: the Cause of Loneliness of Human Beings | 第31-33页 |
| 2． Science: the Cause of the Destruction of the Human World | 第33-36页 |
| B． Vonnegut Deconstructs the Capitalist Society | 第36-46页 |
| 1． The Dirty Source and Implications of the Capitalist's Money | 第36-38页 |
| 2． The Law Only Protects the Capitalist America | 第38-43页 |
| a． Strike and Massacre | 第39-40页 |
| b． Justice Upholder: the Enemy of American Institutions | 第40-42页 |
| c． Fired because Pessimistic—Un-American and Anti-American | 第42-43页 |
| 3． Capitalism Destroys the Environment and Culture | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter 2 Vonnegut's Reconstruction of the Real World | 第46-65页 |
| A． Dignity against Mechanization | 第46-49页 |
| B． Kindness against War | 第49-50页 |
| C． Fellowship against Loneliness | 第50-52页 |
| D． Survive by Ceasing to Be Fully Human | 第52-54页 |
| E． The Ways to Adapt to Chaos | 第54-65页 |
| 1． Black Humor | 第55-58页 |
| 2． Schizophrenia | 第58-60页 |
| 3． New Religions | 第60-65页 |
| Chapter 3 Vonnegut's Deconstruction of the Fictional World | 第65-103页 |
| A． The Development of the Novel from Realism to Modernism and Then to Postmodernism | 第65-71页 |
| B． Metafiction | 第71-74页 |
| C． Vonnegut's Metafictional Novels | 第74-82页 |
| 1． Slaughterhouse-Five: a Novel about How to Write This Novel | 第74-78页 |
| 2． Breakfast of Champions: an Anti-Novel | 第78-81页 |
| 3． Deadeye Dick: the Metafictional Plays-Within-the-Play | 第81-82页 |
| D． The Aesthetic Features of Vonnegut's Deconstruction of the Novel World | 第82-103页 |
| 1． Indeterminacy in Meaning and Narration | 第83-87页 |
| a． Pluralism in Meaning | 第83-85页 |
| b． Discontinuity in Narration | 第85-87页 |
| 2． Fragmentation in the Text | 第87-89页 |
| 3． Decanonization: the Delegitimation of the Grand Narratives | 第89-94页 |
| a． Petit Recit: the Portrayal of the Anti-Hero | 第89-91页 |
| b． Little Narratives on Heterogeneous Subjects in the Same Structure | 第91-94页 |
| 4． Selflessness, Depthlessness: Postmodern People—All Kinds of Machines | 第94-98页 |
| 5． The Unpresentable, Unrepresentable Subjects | 第98-103页 |
| a． The Abject and Brutal Aspects in Humanity | 第98-100页 |
| b． Death: the Central Character | 第100-103页 |
| Chapter 4 Vonnegut's Reconstruction of the Fictional World | 第103-132页 |
| A． Irony: the Suspensive Multiple Irony in Cat's Cradle | 第103-108页 |
| 1． The Belied Truths | 第104-105页 |
| 2． The True Lies | 第105页 |
| 3． Ironic Fatalism | 第105-106页 |
| 4． An Attack against Christianity and a Parody of the Origin of All Religions as Well | 第106-107页 |
| 5． Self-invalidating Contradictions | 第107-108页 |
| B． Hybridization: the Variant Imitation of Genres | 第108-112页 |
| 1． Deadeye Dick: a Mixture of Fiction and History | 第109-110页 |
| 2． Timequake: a Stew of Novel and Memoir | 第110-112页 |
| C． Carnivalization: Breakfast of Champions—a Polyphonic Novel | 第112-117页 |
| 1． Participate in the Wild Disorder of Life | 第113-115页 |
| 2． Polyphony Caused by the Centrifugal Power of Language | 第115-117页 |
| a． Digressions | 第115-116页 |
| b． The Hopelessness of Cummunication | 第116-117页 |
| D． Performance, Participation in the Writing of Text | 第117-121页 |
| E． Constructionism: New Gnosticism in Vonnegut's Science Fiction | 第121-125页 |
| 1． Relativity against Eternity | 第122-124页 |
| 2． The Absurd Notion of a Final Accounting | 第124页 |
| 3． A Crime to Use Science for Making Killing Weapons | 第124-125页 |
| F． Immanence in the Discourse | 第125-132页 |
| 1． Language Refers to Itself and Becomes a Hero | 第126-128页 |
| 2． Language Turns Culture into an Immanent Semiotic System | 第128-132页 |
| Chapter 5 Vonnegut's Tendency toward New Historicism | 第132-145页 |
| A． The Rising of New Historicism | 第132-134页 |
| B． The Basic Theories of New Historicism | 第134-136页 |
| C． Vonnegut's New Historical Novels | 第136-145页 |
| 1． The Historical Event in a Circular Language Structure | 第136-140页 |
| 2． The Historical Events Appropriated to Serve Special Interests | 第140-145页 |
| Conclusion | 第145-149页 |
| Works Cited | 第149-155页 |
| Index | 第155-157页 |
