| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS FOR TEXTS CITED | 第6-8页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第8-14页 |
| CHAPTER 1 WITNESSING AND AWAKENING: THE DEATH IMAGE IN THE TWO ITALIAN NOVELS | 第14-24页 |
| ·The Passing Away of a Mother and a Child in Where Angels Fear to Tread | 第14-18页 |
| ·A Bloody Murder in A Room with a Mew | 第18-24页 |
| CHAPTER 2 GOING THROUGH BY THEMSELVES: THE DEATH IMAGE IN THE TWO ENGLISH NOVELS | 第24-35页 |
| ·"May God Receive Me"—Rickie's Untimely Death on the Railway | 第25-29页 |
| ·To Confess or Not to Confess: That's Not the Question-Leonard's Sudden Death under Books | 第29-35页 |
| CHAPTER 3 SEPARATING AND DISILLUSIONING: THE DEATH IMAGE IN THE INDIAN NOVEL | 第35-45页 |
| ·Great Expense vs. Dim Future: Mrs. Moore's Death to the Living | 第36-41页 |
| ·To Die, to Evade: Mrs. Moore's Death to Herself and to Forster | 第41-45页 |
| CHAPTER 4 FROM CONFRONTATION TO EVASION: FORSTER'S CHANGING ATTITUDES IN THE REPETITIVE ADOPTION OF THE DEATH IMAGE | 第45-56页 |
| ·Repetition of the Death Image | 第45-50页 |
| ·Forster's Changing Attitudes from Confrontation to Evasion | 第50-56页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第56-58页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第58-60页 |