| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| Chapter One Writing Background of the Community Narratives | 第17-25页 |
| ·Transitional society: competition of contrastive moral values | 第17-21页 |
| ·Erosion of materialism on Puritanism in America | 第17-19页 |
| ·The crossroad of social development in China | 第19-21页 |
| ·Personal choice: pen as weapon | 第21-23页 |
| ·Triumph of spiritual fulfillment against material success | 第21-22页 |
| ·Heartful call for sane spirit | 第22-23页 |
| ·Barometers in an unrest society | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two The Grotesque: Confusion at the Crossroad | 第25-36页 |
| ·Victim of the industrial and material society | 第25-30页 |
| ·Twisted apples left hung on the tree | 第25-27页 |
| ·Lonely souls in an alienated society | 第27-28页 |
| ·Devalued female in a frustrated society | 第28-30页 |
| ·Poison of Feudalist society on the soul | 第30-34页 |
| ·The images of farmers living in a cruel society | 第30-32页 |
| ·Intellectual images in an age of transition from tradition to modernity | 第32-33页 |
| ·Miserable life of the female | 第33-34页 |
| ·Guides in a spiritually lost society | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Three Pioneer of a New Literary Era | 第36-52页 |
| ·The structure of the community narratives | 第36-41页 |
| ·Structure in Winesburg, Ohio tales | 第36-39页 |
| ·Structure in Call to Arms and Wandering | 第39-41页 |
| ·Writing techniques in the community narratives | 第41-50页 |
| ·Symbolism in the community narratives | 第41-45页 |
| ·Psychological exploration in the community narratives | 第45-48页 |
| ·Irony in the community narratives | 第48-50页 |
| ·Bound of Realism and Modernism | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Four Reflections on the Reception of the Community Narratives | 第52-57页 |
| ·The reception of the community narratives | 第52-55页 |
| ·Reflections on the reception | 第55-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-64页 |
| 在校期间的研究成果及发表的学术论文 | 第64-65页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第65页 |
