| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-15页 |
| ·Motivation for the Study | 第9页 |
| ·Organization | 第9-11页 |
| ·Characteristics of Literary Translations | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review of the Translator’s Creativity in Literary Translations | 第15-25页 |
| ·The Translator’s Creativity in the Light of Hermeneutics | 第15-18页 |
| ·Relationship between Literary Translations and Hermeneutics | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Influence of Pre-understanding on the Translator’s Creativity | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Influence of Dialogues on the Translator’s Creativity | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Translator’s Creativity in the Light of Receptive Aesthetics | 第18-25页 |
| ·Relationship between Literary Translations and Receptive Aesthetics | 第18-19页 |
| ·Creativity of the Translator as a Reader | 第19-21页 |
| ·Creativity of the Translator as a Creator | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Three On the Translator’s Creativity in Literary Translations | 第25-35页 |
| ·What is Creativity? | 第25-26页 |
| ·Novelty and Appropriateness of the Translator’s Creativity | 第26-27页 |
| ·Inspiration of the Translator’s Creativity | 第27-30页 |
| ·Constraints on the Translator’s Creativity in Literary Translations | 第30-35页 |
| ·The Constraint of the Text | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Constraint of the Reader’s Response | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Constraint of Time and Space | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Translator’s Creativity in The Peony Pavilion | 第35-58页 |
| ·The Peony Pavilion and Its Three English Versions | 第35-38页 |
| ·About the Author | 第35页 |
| ·About the Script | 第35-36页 |
| ·Three English Versions of The Peony Pavilion | 第36-38页 |
| ·Cyril Birch’s Version | 第36-37页 |
| ·Zhang Guangqian’s Version | 第37页 |
| ·Wang Rongpei’s Version | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Translator’s Creativity in the Three English Versions of The Peony Pavilion | 第38-58页 |
| ·The Translator’s Creativity in Transferring Culture | 第38-44页 |
| ·The Translator’s Creativity in Transferring Sound Effects | 第44-48页 |
| ·The Translator’s Creativity in Transferring Imageries | 第48-51页 |
| ·The Translator’s Creativity in Transferring Moods | 第51-54页 |
| ·The Translator’s Creativity in the Manipulation of Language | 第54-58页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第58-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-62页 |
