| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-43页 |
| Chapter 1 Social Context,Personal Experiences and the Development of Kerouac's Social Critical Consciousness | 第43-67页 |
| 1.1 Consumerism and Conformism | 第45-48页 |
| 1.2 Cold War,McCarthyism and One-Dimensional Society | 第48-50页 |
| 1.3 Personal Experiences and the Development of Kerouac's Social Critical Consciousness | 第50-64页 |
| 1.3.1 French-Canadian Working-Class Background | 第50-54页 |
| 1.3.2 Horace Mann Prep School,Columbia University,Time Square and Outsiders | 第54-58页 |
| 1.3.3 "Self Ultimacy"and"New Vision" | 第58-61页 |
| 1.3.4 Kerouac,Neal Cassady and Road Life | 第61-62页 |
| 1.3.5 Kerouac,Gary Snyder and Zen Buddhism | 第62-64页 |
| 1.4 Summary | 第64-67页 |
| Chapter 2 New Vision:a Social Critical Notion | 第67-95页 |
| 2.1 New Vision:the Practical and Artistic Guidance of the Beats | 第67-69页 |
| 2.2 The Genesis of the New Vision | 第69-72页 |
| 2.3 New Vision in Kerouac's Works | 第72-92页 |
| 2.3.1 IT and Satori:Instinct of the Unconscious and the Spirit | 第73-75页 |
| 2.3.2 Kerouac's Understanding of New Vision:a Practical Notion | 第75-78页 |
| 2.3.3 The Basic Tone of Kerouac's Works:"Calling for Humanity | 第78-92页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第92-95页 |
| Chapter 3 "Digging" the Subterranean Life | 第95-147页 |
| 3.1 "What Do You Want Out of Life?" | 第96-97页 |
| 3.2 The Road Is Life | 第97-100页 |
| 3.2.1 A New Call from a New Horizon | 第99-100页 |
| 3.3 In Search of IT--the State of Living in the Present | 第100-120页 |
| 3.3.1 IT:A State of Living in the Present | 第103-120页 |
| 3.4 Life of Dharma Bums | 第120-143页 |
| 3.4.1 Skepticism towards Western Religion | 第121-126页 |
| 3.4.2 "Everything Is Empty but Awake!" | 第126-130页 |
| 3.4.3 Zen Lunatics (Dharma Bums) and Rucksack Revolution | 第130-143页 |
| 3.5 Summary | 第143-147页 |
| Chapter 4 A Social Critical Potentiality:the Subterraneans | 第147-187页 |
| 4.1 Some Types of the Subterraneans in Kerouac's Works | 第147-155页 |
| 4.2 Authenticity of the Subterraneans | 第155-165页 |
| 4.3 Self-Marginality of the Subterraneans | 第165-174页 |
| 4.4 Kerouac's Racial Consciousness | 第174-182页 |
| 4.5 Social Critical Potentialities of the Subterraneans | 第182-185页 |
| 4.6 Summary | 第185-187页 |
| Chapter 5 Spontaneous Prose:a Subversive Writing | 第187-221页 |
| 5.1 Spontaneous Prose:an Appreciated Form for New Vision | 第188-195页 |
| 5.2 Adoption of the Language of Subculture Groups | 第195-207页 |
| 5.3 Spontaneity and Subjectivity | 第207-220页 |
| 5.4 Summary | 第220-221页 |
| Conclusion | 第221-227页 |
| Works Cited | 第227-241页 |
| 攻读博士学位期间发表的论文和著作 | 第241-243页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第243-245页 |
