目录序 1
前言 1
Introduction 1
Ⅰ．American Vietnam War Literature in the 20th Century 1
Ⅱ．The Characteristics of Stone's and O'Brien's War Fiction 6
Ⅲ．American and Chinese Critics on Stone and O'Brien 15
Ⅳ．The Aim and the Structure of This Book 18
Chapter One Within the Vietnam War 24
Ⅰ．The Vietnam Syndrome 24
Ⅱ．The War in Viet Nam 37
Chapter Two Beyond the Vietnam War 56
Ⅰ．From Viet Nam to Vietnam—Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 57
Ⅱ．From Viet Nam to the USA 90
Ⅲ．From Viet Nam to Central America 109
Ⅳ．From the Vietnam War to the War of Life 123
Chapter Three Robert Stone:From Neorealism to Postmodernism 138
Ⅰ．Robert Stone in the Postmodern Context 138
Ⅱ．Neorealistic Aesthetic Representation 142
Ⅲ．Postmodernist Tendency 163
Chapter Four Tim O'Brien:From Postmodernism to New Historicism 178
Ⅰ．Tim O'Brien in the Postmodernist Aura 178
Ⅱ．Metafiction 179
Ⅲ．New Historicism 213
Conclusion 228
Works Cited 232
附录一 罗伯特·斯通生平大事记 241
附录二 梯姆·奥布莱恩生平大事记 243
后记 245
Index 249