| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第1-32页 |
| ·Literature review | 第11-27页 |
| ·Literature review of John Barth and his works | 第11-13页 |
| ·Barth's inspiration of writing The End of the Road | 第13-18页 |
| ·Context of black humor | 第18-27页 |
| ·Black humor fiction in America in the 1960s | 第18-21页 |
| ·Black humor in other periods and in world literatures | 第21-27页 |
| ·Research questions, thesis statement, and methodology | 第27-28页 |
| ·Theoretical framework | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Existentialism in The End of the Road | 第32-48页 |
| ·Camus' theory of absurdity | 第32-35页 |
| ·Analysis of existentialism in The End of the Road | 第35-48页 |
| ·Horner— an existentialist from an outsider to a modern Sisyphus | 第35-41页 |
| ·Products of dissimilation under absurdity | 第41-48页 |
| ·Morgan—an outsider | 第41-44页 |
| ·Rennie—a robot | 第44-48页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Black Humor in The End of the Road | 第48-69页 |
| ·Comparison between novels of existentialism and novels of black humor | 第48-50页 |
| ·Conventional black humor—characterization of anti-heroes with comic language | 第50-53页 |
| ·Analysis of black humor in The End of the Road | 第53-69页 |
| ·Comic incongruity of characterization in The End of the Road | 第53-66页 |
| ·Homer | 第53-58页 |
| ·Morgan | 第58-65页 |
| ·Rennie | 第65-66页 |
| ·Open-ending | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Conclusion | 第69-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-74页 |
