| Introduction | 第1-8页 |
| Part Ⅰ Saul Bellow's Background and His Works | 第8-14页 |
| 1． About his life | 第8-9页 |
| 2． About his works | 第9-14页 |
| Part Ⅱ The Similarities between Bellow's Works and Spinoza's Ideas | 第14-50页 |
| Section One The physical and mental conditions of the main characters | 第14-36页 |
| 1． Physical condition | 第14-18页 |
| 2． Actions as the results of the physical affects and mental perception of them | 第18-22页 |
| 3． Women as the source of affects | 第22-29页 |
| 4． The heroes' relationship with other relations | 第29-33页 |
| 5． Interaction between senses and sensibilities--Spinoza's Theory | 第33-36页 |
| Section Two Style of the Novels as a Manifestation of the Metaphysical Explanation | 第36-40页 |
| 1． The density of allusions | 第37-38页 |
| 2． The polyglot and eclecticism style | 第38-39页 |
| 3． Metaphysical poets' syntax | 第39页 |
| 4． The importance of this style | 第39-40页 |
| Section Three The way in organizing these ideas-with Spinozian ideas as the framework and other ideas as the flesh | 第40-44页 |
| Section Four Use of symbolism--the Psychic Pattern | 第44-48页 |
| 1． The projected psyche in the novel of Herzog | 第44-46页 |
| 2． Resistance to Freudian Principle-the fight of the two underlying forces of the novel--Spinozian rationalism and Freudian pleasure domination | 第46-47页 |
| 3． The victory of the mind | 第47-48页 |
| Section Five Religion--God as a symbol | 第48-50页 |
| 1． The addressing ”Thou” | 第48-49页 |
| 2． Humanistic transcendence | 第49-50页 |
| Part Ⅲ Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-53页 |
