| 内容提要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| ·A survey of literary achievements and criticism of DeLillo | 第8-10页 |
| ·Major themes and White Noise | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter II A Spectacle of Consumer Society in White Noise | 第12-18页 |
| ·Advent of consumer society | 第12-14页 |
| ·Permeation of consumer culture in White Noise | 第14-18页 |
| Chapter III Symbolic Consumption: the Prominent Feature of Consumer Culture in the Postmodern America | 第18-30页 |
| ·Kingdom of signs | 第19-25页 |
| ·Academic researches and The Most Photographed Barn in America: symbolization of culture | 第19-21页 |
| ·Hitler studies: symbolization of history | 第21-23页 |
| ·Nuns: symbolization of belief | 第23-25页 |
| ·New values of consumer culture shaped by symbolic consumption | 第25-30页 |
| ·Babette’s craze for shopping | 第26页 |
| ·Conspicuous consumption of parents and tourists | 第26-28页 |
| ·Jack’s retail therapy | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter IV Existential Crises of Postmodern People | 第30-43页 |
| ·Appearance of the hyper reality and loss of subjectivity | 第30-38页 |
| ·Duality of death | 第38-43页 |
| Chapter V Conclusion | 第43-45页 |
| Bibliography | 第45-47页 |
| Published papers in the course of study | 第47-48页 |
