| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| Chapter Two Narrative Techniques about Time | 第15-58页 |
| ·The Story Time in Nostromo | 第15-20页 |
| ·Major Prolepses and Analepses in Nostromo | 第20-28页 |
| ·Major Prolepses | 第21-25页 |
| ·Major Analepses | 第25-28页 |
| ·Characters' Personal Histories and the Presentation of the Country's History | 第28-38页 |
| ·Characters' Personal Histories | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Presentation of Guzman Bento's Age | 第32-37页 |
| ·The Relations between the Main Action and History | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Repeating Narration | 第38-47页 |
| ·President Ribiera's Flight | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Banquet on the Juno | 第40-44页 |
| ·Functions of the Repeating Narration | 第44-47页 |
| ·Time Juxtaposition and Dr. Monygham's Personal History | 第47-58页 |
| ·The Presentation of Dr. Monygham's Personal History | 第48-50页 |
| ·Juxtaposition of Past and Present | 第50-58页 |
| Chapter Three Narrative Techniques about the Narrator | 第58-85页 |
| ·The Narrator's Informants | 第58-69页 |
| ·Captain Mitchell as an Informant | 第59-64页 |
| ·Martin Decoud as an Informant | 第64-69页 |
| ·The Narrator's Omniscience and Its Effects | 第69-85页 |
| ·Decoud's Suicide | 第74-78页 |
| ·Nostromo's Awakening | 第78-85页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第85-90页 |
| Bibliography | 第90-93页 |
| 作者在读期间科研成果简介 | 第93-95页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第95页 |
