| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-20页 |
| Ⅰ. The Narrative Causality: the Causality in a World of Non-Causality | 第20-29页 |
| A. The Definition of Narrative Sequence and Emma Kafalenos’Model of Narrative Sequence | 第20-23页 |
| B. The Cause and Effect in a World of Non-Causality | 第23-26页 |
| C. The Non-causality in the War | 第26-29页 |
| Ⅱ. The Narrative Voice: Whose Story, Billy’s or the Novelist’s | 第29-44页 |
| A. War Story: the Heterodiegetic Narrative in Slaughterhouse-Five | 第30-37页 |
| 1. Billy’s War Story through the Narration of Heterodiegetic Narrator | 第30-31页 |
| 2. War Story Focalized through the Character | 第31-34页 |
| 3. Story Implied from the Direct Discourse between Characters | 第34-37页 |
| B. Novelist’s Story Delivered from the Intrusive Narrator | 第37-44页 |
| 1. Novelist’s Schizophrenia and Psychological Problem | 第38-39页 |
| 2. Novelist’s Thirst to be Reinvented through Dramatization | 第39-40页 |
| 3. Novelist’s Demand for Readers’Involvement | 第40-42页 |
| 4. Novelist’s Commenting on the Writing | 第42-44页 |
| Ⅲ. The Narrative Time: Intermingling among Past, Present, and Future | 第44-53页 |
| A. Fragmentized Time | 第44-46页 |
| B. The Frequency of Events | 第46-49页 |
| 1. Genette’s four Types of Narrative Frequency | 第46-47页 |
| 2. The Repeating Narrative in Slaughterhouse-Five | 第47-49页 |
| C. Anachrony | 第49-53页 |
| 1. Mieke Bal’s two Types of Anachrony | 第50页 |
| 2. Retroversion and Anticipation in Slaughterhouse-Five | 第50-53页 |
| Ⅳ. The Narrative Space: Interchanging among Prison, American Home and Planet Tralfamadore | 第53-62页 |
| A. The Narrative Space in Slaughterhouse-Five | 第54-60页 |
| 1. The Wartime Prison in Dresden | 第54-56页 |
| 2. The Afterwar Family Back in the US | 第56-58页 |
| 3. Planet Tralfamadore | 第58-60页 |
| B. The Influence of the Environment on the Character | 第60-62页 |
| Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| Works Cited | 第65-70页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第70-71页 |
