| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第6-9页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Studies on A Portrait: Reception, Understanding and Self-Understanding | 第11-17页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ A Portrait: A Kaleidoscope of Critical Receptions | 第17-42页 |
| 1 Bildungsroman vs. anti-Bildungsroman | 第20-31页 |
| ·Exiled Artist, Rebellious Hero—A Portrait as Bildungsroman | 第21-24页 |
| ·Autobiographical Nature | 第22-23页 |
| ·Linear Narration | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Diary as Self-Assertion | 第24页 |
| ·Illusory Dream, Ironic Figure—A Portrait as anti-Bildungsroman | 第24-31页 |
| ·Fictional Nature | 第25-26页 |
| ·Curved Narrative | 第26-27页 |
| A. Repetition | 第26页 |
| B. Reversal | 第26-27页 |
| C. The cause for the “Curve”—An Inference | 第27页 |
| ·The Diary as anti-Culmination | 第27-28页 |
| ·Irony | 第28-31页 |
| 2 Colorful Portraits of A Portrait Under Critical Lights | 第31-42页 |
| ·The Dialectic Between Naturalism and Symbolism and Between Realism and Modernism | 第31-33页 |
| ·Patriarchal Book, Misogynous Young Man—Feminist Reading | 第33-36页 |
| ·Daedalian Life in the Labyrinth—Archetypal Criticism | 第36-38页 |
| ·The Unfulfilled Dream—Psychological Analysis | 第38-39页 |
| ·The History of Ideological Struggles—Marxist Criticism | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ A Portrait as Narrative Quest for Self: “I narrate, therefore I am.” | 第42-59页 |
| 1 Struggling Between “Narratives”—Stephen’s Odyssey Through “Fluid and Lambent” Narratives | 第42-55页 |
| 2 Elevation in Artistic Creation—Joyce’s Self-Understanding as Artist | 第55-59页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Quest for Self as an Everlasting, “Everliving”Theme | 第59-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-67页 |
| 论文独创性声明 | 第67页 |
| 论文使用授权声明 | 第67-68页 |