| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract(in English) | 第8-10页 |
| Abstract(in Chinese) | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| 1.Raymond Chandler's Ingenious Unity of Serious Literature and Popular Literature | 第11-12页 |
| 2.Critical Approaches and Design of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One A Survey of the Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Raymond Chandler | 第14-24页 |
| ·The Emergence of the Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction | 第14-17页 |
| ·An Introduction to Raymond Chandlerand His Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction | 第17-20页 |
| ·Chandler's Language and Style | 第20-24页 |
| Chapter Two The Classical Detective Fiction and Raymond Chandler's Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction | 第24-36页 |
| ·Characterization of the Detective | 第24-27页 |
| ·Minor Characters:Roles of Women and Police | 第27-30页 |
| ·Solving the Mystery | 第30-32页 |
| ·Narrative Point of View | 第32-34页 |
| ·Setting | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Three Chivalric Romance | 第36-46页 |
| ·Elements of Chivalric Romance | 第36-42页 |
| ·Definition of Chivalric Romance | 第36页 |
| ·Philip Marlowe:A Knight with Chivalric Code | 第36-40页 |
| ·A Chivalric Quest:Correcting Social Injustices | 第40-42页 |
| ·Failure of Chivalric Romance | 第42-46页 |
| ·Failure of the Modern Knight | 第42-44页 |
| ·Failure of Moral Redemption | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter Four American Reality | 第46-55页 |
| ·Detective Fiction:Realistic or Not? | 第46-48页 |
| ·The Tensions of the Time | 第48-50页 |
| ·Los Angeles in Chandler's Fiction | 第50-55页 |
| Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| Notes | 第57-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-67页 |
| Appendix | 第67-68页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表论文 | 第68页 |
