| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One The Structure and the Theme of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 第13-17页 |
| Chapter Two The Historical and Mythological analogies | 第17-23页 |
| Chapter Three Symbols of the Recurrent Imagery | 第23-39页 |
| Chapter Four Symbols of Correspondences | 第39-44页 |
| Chapter Five The Symbolic Meaning in Characters | 第44-48页 |
| Conclusion | 第48-50页 |
| Endnotes | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-54页 |