| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第10-18页 |
| ·A General Introduction to Angela Carter and Nights at the Circus | 第10-13页 |
| ·The Embracing of Otherness in Bakhtinian Dialogic Poetics | 第13-18页 |
| Chapter II Nutrition of Carter' s Values and Arts in Nights at the Circus | 第18-25页 |
| ·The Illumination of Family and Literary Contacts | 第18-22页 |
| ·Carter's Concern of Women' s Existential Conditions in Early 1980s | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter III Polyphonic Narrative Displaying Dialogic Gender Relations | 第25-40页 |
| ·Ironic Dialogues with Male-canonical Myths and Texts | 第25-32页 |
| ·The Inner Dialogue within Walser: Patriarchal Trait or Free Trait | 第32-35页 |
| ·Multi-layered Interactive Feminist Voices | 第35-40页 |
| ·Fevvers' Voice: Relational Feminism | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Voices of Women Lovers: Lesbian Feminism | 第37-38页 |
| ·Lizzie's Voice: Marxist Feminism | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter IV Carnivalesque Spirit Obscuring Patriarchal Boundaries | 第40-51页 |
| ·The Serio-comic Role Reversals in the Carnival-grotesque | 第40-48页 |
| ·Walser vs. Fevvers: Male Subject vs. Female Object? | 第41-45页 |
| ·Men vs. Nature: Nobel Images vs. a Humble Image? | 第45-48页 |
| ·Subversion and Renewal in Carnival Laughter | 第48-51页 |
| Chapter V Conclusion | 第51-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-59页 |
| 攻读学位期间的研究成果 | 第59页 |
