| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-20页 |
| ·a brief review of narratology | 第9-11页 |
| ·Katherine Mansfield's life and works | 第11-13页 |
| ·the themes of Katherine Mansfield's short stories | 第13-16页 |
| ·Katherine Mansfield's studies | 第16-20页 |
| Chapter Two Mansfield's Free Plot Stories | 第20-37页 |
| ·epiphany | 第24-29页 |
| ·in media res | 第29-33页 |
| ·open-ended stories | 第33-37页 |
| Chapter Three Manipulation of Narrative Time, Perspective and Employment of FreeIndirect Discourse | 第37-57页 |
| ·anachrony | 第37-40页 |
| ·accretion | 第40-47页 |
| ·circumlocution | 第47-50页 |
| ·free indirect discourse | 第50-54页 |
| ·shifting of narrative perspective | 第54-57页 |
| Chapter Four Images and Symbols in Katherine Mansfield's Stories | 第57-64页 |
| ·the image of flower in Mansfield's stories | 第57-60页 |
| ·the image of animal in Mansfield's stories | 第60-62页 |
| ·the image of the sun and the sea in Mansfield's stories | 第62-64页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-68页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第68-69页 |
