| ChapterOne: Introduction | 第1-29页 |
| ·Critical reputation of Kurt Vonnegut and the rationale of the present study | 第9-12页 |
| ·Thesis statement | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research questions | 第13页 |
| ·Literature review | 第13-26页 |
| ·Theoretical framework and analytical method | 第26-28页 |
| ·Structure and content | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Two: Intertextuality in Constructing Theme and Enriching Meaning | 第29-51页 |
| ·Extended definitions of text | 第29-30页 |
| ·Techniques and practices of intertextuality in JB | 第30-51页 |
| ·Quotation of Sacco's letter | 第30-34页 |
| ·Allusion through a fictive character | 第34-38页 |
| ·Story within story | 第38-43页 |
| ·Distorted presentation of historical figures and events | 第43-51页 |
| Chapter Three: Intertextuality and Historiographic Metafiction | 第51-63页 |
| ·Intertextuality in Making Jailbird a Historiographic Metafiction | 第51-57页 |
| ·Intertextuality gives historical sense to Jailbird | 第51-53页 |
| ·Intertextuality gives fictive sense to Jailbird | 第53-56页 |
| ·Jailbird as a historiographic metafiction | 第56-57页 |
| ·Implication as a historiographic metafiction | 第57-63页 |
| ·De-totalize history writing | 第58-60页 |
| ·Expose the nature of history— being text(s) | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter Four: Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| Works Cited | 第65-67页 |
