| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第7-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-16页 |
| Chapter One The Confusing “Who” in The New York Trilogy | 第16-28页 |
| ·Story-telling Puzzle—The Relation between the Author and the Narrators | 第16-22页 |
| ·Identity Labyrinth—The Relation between Character | 第22-28页 |
| Chapter Two Shadows as “Father” in The New York Trilogy | 第28-39页 |
| ·Fathers and Sons: Paul Auster and Poe, Hawthorne and Thoreau | 第28-35页 |
| ·Writers in the Secret: Paul Auster and Cervantes, Conrad, Poe | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter Three Search for the Meaning and Language | 第39-52页 |
| ·Missing in the Locked Room: A Meaningless World | 第39-45页 |
| ·Lost In the City of Glass: An Unspeakable World | 第45-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-55页 |
| Works Cited | 第55-56页 |
