| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-11页 |
| Chapter 2 Northrop Frye and Mytho-archetypical criticism | 第11-25页 |
| 1 Northrop Frye: the critic and the theoretician | 第11-12页 |
| 2 Mytho-archetypical criticism before Northrop Frye | 第12-19页 |
| 3 Northrop Frye's Mythological and archetypical criticism | 第19-22页 |
| 4 The U-shaped structure defined by Northrop Frye | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter 3 The Narrative Structure of Silas Marner | 第25-33页 |
| 1 The U-shaped narrative structure | 第25-26页 |
| 2 The U-shaped structure in the case of Silas Marner | 第26-31页 |
| 3 The U-shaped structure in the case of Godfrey Cass | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter 4 The Symbolical Meaning of the U-shaped Narrative Structure | 第33-42页 |
| 1 The religious meaning of the U-shaped narrative structure | 第33-36页 |
| 2 The moral meaning of the U-shaped narrative structure | 第36-40页 |
| 3 The humanity meaning of the U-shaped narrative structure | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第42-45页 |
| Bibliography | 第45-49页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第49页 |
