| Acknowledgement | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第10-23页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第10-11页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第11-21页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Humor and Black Humor | 第11-16页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the Trickster | 第16-18页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of Criticisms on The Ballad of the Sad Café | 第18-19页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of Major Criticisms on Wise Blood | 第19-21页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第21页 |
| ·Thesis Statement and Layout of the Paper | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Black Humor in Themes of The Ballad of the Sad Café and Wise Blood | 第23-39页 |
| ·Themes of Black Humor in The Ballad of the Sad Café and Wise Blood | 第23-32页 |
| ·Capricious Love and Spiritual Loneliness in The Ballad of the Sad Café | 第23-27页 |
| ·Absurdity in the Cheapness of Human Life in the American South | 第27-29页 |
| ·McCullers's Tragicomic Vision of Life | 第29-32页 |
| ·Themes of Black Humor in Wise Blood | 第32-37页 |
| ·Absurdity in Interpersonal Relations in Wise Blood | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Barren Life of the People in Wise Blood | 第33-34页 |
| ·O'Connor's Prophetic Vision of Life in Wise Blood | 第34-37页 |
| ·Comparison of the Themes of the two Texts | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ: Black humor and the style | 第39-50页 |
| ·Wasteland Settings | 第39-40页 |
| ·Circular Structures | 第40-42页 |
| ·Humor Superimposed on Violence | 第42-43页 |
| ·Comic Treatment of Tragic Materials | 第43-45页 |
| ·Detached Viewpoint | 第45-46页 |
| ·Employment of the Technique of Grotesqueness | 第46-50页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Black humor in characterization | 第50-64页 |
| ·What Are Anti-heroes? | 第50-52页 |
| ·Why Anti-heroes Abound in the Fiction of Black Humor? | 第52-55页 |
| ·Anti-heroes in The Ballad of the Sad Café and Wise Blood | 第55-59页 |
| ·Anti-heroes in The Ballad of the Sad Café | 第55-57页 |
| ·Anti-heroes in Wise Blood | 第57-59页 |
| ·Really Beyond Good and Evil: Comparisons of the Anti-heroes | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Tricksters | 第60-64页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ: conclusion | 第64-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-70页 |
