| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Abbreviation | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·Thomas Hardy and His Short Stories | 第10-11页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-16页 |
| ·Study on Hardy’s Short Stories Abroad | 第13-14页 |
| ·Study on Hardy’s Short Stories at Home | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Three The Theory of Narrative | 第16-21页 |
| ·Genette’s Concept of Narrative Time | 第16-18页 |
| ·Mieke Bal’s Concept of Narrative Space | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Four The Treatment of Time in Hardy’s Short Stories. | 第21-36页 |
| ·The Concept of Order in the Stories | 第21-25页 |
| ·Interlude | 第21-23页 |
| ·Flashback | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Concept of Duration in the Stories | 第25-31页 |
| ·Ellipsis | 第26-27页 |
| ·Scene | 第27-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-30页 |
| ·Pause | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Concept of Frequency in the Stories | 第31-36页 |
| ·Singulative Narrative | 第32页 |
| ·Repeating Narrative | 第32-34页 |
| ·Iterative Narrative | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Five The Treatment of Space in Hardy’s Short Stories | 第36-64页 |
| ·Space Forms in the Stories | 第36-45页 |
| ·Social Space of the Stories | 第37-39页 |
| ·Pictorialism as Spatial Form in the Stories.. | 第39-41页 |
| ·Inaccessible Space in the Stories | 第41-43页 |
| ·Movements through Space | 第43-45页 |
| ·Spatial Oppositions in the stories | 第45-54页 |
| ·Outer Space and Inner Space in the stories | 第45-47页 |
| ·Urban Space and Rural Space in the stories | 第47-49页 |
| ·Fictional Space and Factual Space of the stories | 第49-54页 |
| ·The Relationship between Space and Other Elements in the Stories | 第54-64页 |
| ·The Relation between Space and Time.. | 第54-57页 |
| ·The Relation between Space and Event | 第57-58页 |
| ·The Relation between Space and Character | 第58-61页 |
| ·The Relation between Space and Narrator | 第61-64页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| ·Summary of the Thesis | 第64-65页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第65-66页 |
| Works Cited | 第66-69页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第69页 |
