| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-14页 |
| 摘要 | 第14-18页 |
| A Note on Abbreviations | 第18-20页 |
| Introduction | 第20-34页 |
| Chapter 1 The Postmodern Social and Cultural Contexts of William Gaddis | 第34-43页 |
| A. The Concept of Entropy in the Postmodern United States | 第35-38页 |
| B. Entropy in the Postmodern Artistic Theory and Works | 第38-43页 |
| Chapter 2 Entropy in William Gaddis's Postmodern Human World | 第43-66页 |
| A. Entropy in American Capitalism System | 第43-56页 |
| 1 The Commodity Fetish and Free-enterprise System | 第44-48页 |
| 2 The Corrupt Interpenetration of Government, Religion and Big Business | 第48-52页 |
| 3 Absurdities of Laws and the Legal System | 第52-56页 |
| B. Entropy in American Capitalist Culture | 第56-62页 |
| 1 Art in the Commercial Context | 第57-61页 |
| 2 Education Versus Commerce | 第61-62页 |
| C. Entropy in Individual Selfhood | 第62-66页 |
| Chapter 3 Entropy in William Gaddis's Postmodern Artistic World | 第66-101页 |
| A. Gaddis's Deconstruction of Traditional Spatio-temporal Concept | 第66-71页 |
| 1 The Postmodern Disruption in Time and Space | 第67-69页 |
| 2 Gaddis's Deconstruction of Time and Space | 第69-71页 |
| B. Gaddis's Narratives of Entropy | 第71-89页 |
| 1 The Palimpsest of Fragments in The Recognitions | 第71-76页 |
| 2 Complicated Montage in JR and A Frolic of His Own | 第76-79页 |
| 3 The Indeterminacy of Gaddis's Fictional Writing Carpenter's Gothic | 第79-89页 |
| C. The Dialogical Structure of Gaddis's Polyphonic Novels | 第89-101页 |
| 1 Double-voiced Discourse | 第90-93页 |
| 2 The Heterogeneity of Discourse | 第93-94页 |
| 3 One-sided Telephone Conversation | 第94-96页 |
| 4 Loss in Communication | 第96-101页 |
| Chapter 4 The Salvation of the Entropic Postmodern Human World | 第101-121页 |
| A. Establishing a New Religion in Postmodern Time | 第102-110页 |
| 1 Return to Alchemy and Matriarchal Myth | 第104-108页 |
| 2 Return to Flemish Painting's Spiritual Hope | 第108-110页 |
| B. Black Humor | 第110-114页 |
| C. The Appeal to the Sublime | 第114-119页 |
| D. To Live Deliberately | 第119-121页 |
| Chapter 5 The Salvation of the Entropic Postmodern Artistic World | 第121-148页 |
| A. Hybridization | 第121-128页 |
| 1 The Collage of Different Genres | 第122-124页 |
| 2 The Convergence of High Culture and Popular Culture | 第124-128页 |
| B. Carnivalization | 第128-137页 |
| 1 Participation in the Counterfeit World | 第129-135页 |
| 2 Carnivalesque Language | 第135-137页 |
| C. Reader's Participation in Gaddis's Tower of Babel | 第137-143页 |
| D. Constructionism | 第143-148页 |
| 1 The Application of Informational Technology in Narratives | 第144-145页 |
| 2 Fantasies of Science and Technology | 第145-148页 |
| Conclusion | 第148-155页 |
| Works Cited | 第155-161页 |
| Index | 第161-163页 |
