| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-17页 |
| 1.1 Carson McCullers and The Ballad of the Sad Café | 第8-11页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第11-15页 |
| 1.3 The Structure of the Thesis and the Significance of the Study | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Basis | 第17-22页 |
| 2.1 Narratology | 第17-18页 |
| 2.2 Spatial Narrative Theory | 第18-22页 |
| Chapter Three Like a Song of“Sad Ballad”: A Rhetorical Study of The Ballad of TheSad Café | 第22-37页 |
| 3.1 The Rhetoric of Fiction | 第22-23页 |
| 3.2 Rhetorical Features in The Ballad of the Sad Café | 第23-37页 |
| 3.2.1 Musical Elements in Narrative Languages to Form the Keynote of Narration | 第24-30页 |
| 3.2.2 Using Rhetorical Figures to Intensify the Atmosphere of Sadness | 第30-37页 |
| Chapter Four The Failure in Constructing a Harmonious Space: an Interpretation ofThe Ballad of the Sad Café from the Angle of Spatial Narrative Theory | 第37-51页 |
| 4.1 The Concept on Space | 第37-39页 |
| 4.2 The Variation of Narrative Space | 第39-49页 |
| 4.2.1 The House Served as an Isolated Store | 第39-43页 |
| 4.2.2. The House Served as a Café | 第43-47页 |
| 4.2.3. The House Discarded and Sealed | 第47-49页 |
| 4.3 The Failure in Constructing a Communicating Space | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-55页 |
| Appendix 攻读学位期间发表的论文 | 第55-56页 |
