| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-20页 |
| 1. Introduction to Saul Bellow and Humboldt’s Gift | 第9-13页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第13-16页 |
| 3. Consumer Society Theory | 第16-18页 |
| 4. Significance and the Structure of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter I A Society Dominated by Consumption | 第20-30页 |
| 1.1 The Advent of Consumer Societies | 第21-26页 |
| 1.2 The Decline of Traditional Values | 第26-30页 |
| Chapter II The Predicaments of the Protagonists in Humboldt’s Gift | 第30-44页 |
| 2.1 The Erosion of Identity in Consumer Societies | 第31-37页 |
| 2.1.1 The Subject Constructed through the Act of Consuming | 第31-34页 |
| 2.1.2 The Marginalized Intellectual Identity | 第34-37页 |
| 2.2 The Alienated Human Relationships in Consumer Societies | 第37-44页 |
| 2.2.1 The Contorted Interpersonal Relationships | 第38-40页 |
| 2.2.2 The Commoditized Gender Relationships | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter III The Survival Strategies of the Protagonists | 第44-52页 |
| 3.1 Citrine: To Reconstruct the Subjectivity as Intellectuals | 第44-48页 |
| 3.2 Humboldt: A Dialectical Attitude towards the Law of Consumer Societies | 第48-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-57页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文和研究成果 | 第57页 |
