| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One The Beat Generation and 1960s' Counterculture | 第13-20页 |
| ·The Beat Generation | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Beat Generation and 1960s' Counterculture | 第14-17页 |
| ·The Fellaheen World | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Mad Ones—the Beats | 第16-17页 |
| ·Kerouac and On the Road | 第17-20页 |
| ·A Brief Portrait of Kerouac and His Spiritual Landscape | 第17-18页 |
| ·On The Road as a Counterculture Manifesto | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two The Counterculture Elements in On The Road | 第20-60页 |
| ·Anti-Conformity:To Find an Authentic Self | 第22-39页 |
| ·The Revival of True Being | 第22-24页 |
| ·Anxiety—The First Step to Nonconformist Consciousness | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Authentic Being toward Death | 第26-28页 |
| ·Dean Moriarty as the Voice of Conscience | 第28-29页 |
| ·Resoluteness—The Repetition of The Trips on the Road | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Authenticity of Time | 第31-39页 |
| ·Anti-materialism | 第39-51页 |
| ·The Rediscovery of Nature | 第39-41页 |
| ·Escalation of the True and Lived Experience | 第41-46页 |
| ·The Recurrence of the Figurative and Myths of Origins | 第46-51页 |
| ·Anti-rationalism | 第51-60页 |
| ·Primitive Human Mind:Intuition and Instinct | 第51-55页 |
| ·Cult of High Experience—the Way to Transcendence | 第55-60页 |
| ·Jazz | 第55-56页 |
| ·Drug-abuse | 第56-58页 |
| ·Sexuality | 第58-59页 |
| ·Movement | 第59-60页 |
| Chapter Three Conclusion:The Significance of On The Road | 第60-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-65页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第65页 |