| 1. A Brief Introduction to the Novel and Critics' Comments | 第9-17页 |
| 2. Chapter One Small World is a Realistic Text with the Veil of Post-modernistic Characteristics | 第17-32页 |
| I Its subject matter, time, places and characters all have typical realistic meanings | 第17-28页 |
| II The novel is to some degree based on the author's real experience | 第28-32页 |
| 3. Chapter Two Small World is a Realistic Text Revealing a Combination of Different Theories Developed by Bakhtin, Brooke-Rose and Lodge | 第32-48页 |
| 4. Chapter Three The Realistic Meanings of Small World | 第48-53页 |
| I Small World authentically represents the modern western academic world | 第48-50页 |
| II Small World also aims at reflecting and refracting a wider social condition | 第50-51页 |
| III Small World provides some kind of criticism on newly emerging literary theories | 第51-53页 |
| 5. Bibliography | 第53-54页 |
