| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Introducing the Issue | 第11-13页 |
| ·Focus of Discussion and Main Approaches | 第13-14页 |
| ·A Preview of the Major Contents | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two Legends of Survival and Death: Kosinski's Life and Works | 第15-26页 |
| ·Colorful Experience, Multiple Personality and Bi-cultural Identity | 第15-18页 |
| ·From The Painted Bird to The Hermit of 69th Street | 第18-22页 |
| ·Inter-text Analysis of Being There: Novel and Film | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter Three Multidimensional Decoding of Being There | 第26-37页 |
| ·Biblical and Classical Interpretation | 第26-31页 |
| ·Connotation and Denotation of the Title | 第26-27页 |
| ·Deciphering the Text | 第27-31页 |
| ·Interpretations in the Perspective of Mass Media Theory | 第31-35页 |
| ·Interpretations in the Perspective of Politics and Sociology | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Four Some Discourses in the Existentialism: Narration and Utterance | 第37-45页 |
| ·Representation of Sartre's and Heidegger's Existentialism | 第37-42页 |
| ·Subversiveness and Openness of the Context | 第42-45页 |
| Chapter Five Exploring the Determinacy and Indeterminacy in Being There | 第45-59页 |
| ·Determinacy and Indeterminacy | 第45-47页 |
| ·Indeterminacy of Protagonist's Existence | 第47-49页 |
| ·Indeterminacy of Motif | 第49-51页 |
| ·Indeterminacy of Plot | 第51-52页 |
| ·Indeterminacy of Narration | 第52-54页 |
| ·Indeterminacy of Symbol | 第54-55页 |
| ·Certainty in Indeterminacy | 第55-59页 |
| ·The Metaphorical Nature of Indeterminacy and Meta-metaphors | 第55-56页 |
| ·The Basic Facts of Existence and Referent of Metaphor | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| Works Cited | 第61-63页 |
| 攻读学位期间的研究成果 | 第63页 |
