| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第7-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Verbal Irony in A Frolic of His Own | 第13-24页 |
| ·Understatement and Overstatement | 第14-19页 |
| ·Contradictory Statement | 第19-22页 |
| ·Aesthetics of Verbal Irony | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Two Situational Irony in A Frolic of His Own | 第24-35页 |
| ·Beyond the Expectation of Readers | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Defamiliarization of the Plot | 第26-28页 |
| ·Parody in the Plot | 第28-30页 |
| ·Aesthetics of Situational Irony | 第30-35页 |
| Chapter Three Structural Irony in A Frolic of His Own | 第35-42页 |
| ·Reiteration of words and phrases | 第35-37页 |
| ·Echoic Object | 第37-38页 |
| ·Aesthetics of Structural Irony | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Four Ironic Aesthetic Value in A Frolic of His Own | 第42-49页 |
| ·Spiritual Dimension | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Effect of Irony: Black Humor | 第45-49页 |
| Conclusion | 第49-52页 |
| Works Cited | 第52-53页 |
