| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-21页 |
| ·A briefintroduction to Flannery O'Connor and her literary career | 第11-12页 |
| ·Literature review | 第12-19页 |
| ·Foreign O'Connor criticism | 第12-17页 |
| ·Domestic research about O'Connor | 第17-19页 |
| ·The originality and structure of this thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Introduction—Bakhtin's Carnival Poetics | 第21-26页 |
| ·Marginalized M.M. Bakhtin and his vent for voice | 第21-22页 |
| ·Major elements in Bakhtin's carnival poetics | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter Three Carnival Figures in O'Connor's Works | 第26-37页 |
| ·Carnival collective:the unswervingly subversive power | 第27-33页 |
| ·Carnival tricksters | 第27-29页 |
| ·Carnival clowns | 第29-31页 |
| ·Carnival fools | 第31-33页 |
| ·Carnival kings and queens—the ritual of crowning and decrowning | 第33-37页 |
| Chapter Four The Carnival Spirit in O'Connor's Works | 第37-48页 |
| ·The spirit of subversion—the internal displacement of the two genders | 第37-41页 |
| ·The spirit of dualism—paradoxical figures | 第41-43页 |
| ·The spirit of dialogism—polyphonic carnival | 第43-48页 |
| Chapter Five The Reasons for O'Connor's Carnival Writing | 第48-60页 |
| ·The collective narcissism in the south | 第48-53页 |
| ·Refusal to accept changes and differences | 第49-50页 |
| ·A sense of honor | 第50-51页 |
| ·Various narcissistic in-groups | 第51-52页 |
| ·The southern narcissism presented in O'Connor's works | 第52-53页 |
| ·The elitism of the hierarchical south | 第53-55页 |
| ·Elitist discourse—a defense mechanism for the southerners | 第53-54页 |
| ·The elitism presented in O'Connor's works | 第54-55页 |
| ·O'Connor—an ill-fated and marginalized writer | 第55-60页 |
| ·Fatal disease—confined and isolated life | 第55-56页 |
| ·An outsider of the mainstream literary circle | 第56-60页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第60-62页 |
| Works Cited | 第62-68页 |
| Publications | 第68页 |
