| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| Chapter One Possession in Readers’Actual Reading | 第16-24页 |
| ·Possession as a Postmodern Novel | 第18-20页 |
| ·Possession as a Realistic Novel | 第20-21页 |
| ·Possession as a Historical Novel | 第21-22页 |
| ·Possession in the Light of Feminism | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Two Author’s Construction of Ash’s World: the Implied Reader’s Appeal | 第24-43页 |
| ·Ash: the Fictional Poet | 第26-28页 |
| ·Ash: the Fusion of Invention and Truth | 第26-27页 |
| ·Ash in Various Perspectives | 第27-28页 |
| ·Ash in Relationship — a Pastiche of Interweaving Multi-leveled Narration | 第28-43页 |
| ·Ash and the Modern Academic Circle: the First Narrative Level | 第30-36页 |
| ·Modern Scholar’s Detection into Ash’s secret Love | 第30-31页 |
| ·Academic Scholars’Ironic Relationship with Ash | 第31-36页 |
| ·Ash in his Victorian Period—the Second Narrative Level | 第36-39页 |
| ·Ash’s World Filled with Blanks | 第36-37页 |
| ·Ash’s Symbolic World | 第37-39页 |
| ·Ash and the Remote Antiquity—the Third Narrative Level | 第39-43页 |
| Chapter Three Reader’s Reconstruction of Ash’s World: the Interaction between the Implied Reader and the Actual Reader | 第43-57页 |
| ·Reader’s Ideation of the Fictional Ash | 第44-47页 |
| ·Reader’s Decoding of Ash as the Combination of Fiction and Reality | 第44-46页 |
| ·Reader’s Decoding of Ash in Various Perspectives | 第46-47页 |
| ·Reader’s Untangling of the Network of Multiple leveled Narration | 第47-52页 |
| ·Reader’s Constitution: the Relationship between the First and the Second Level | 第47-49页 |
| ·Reader’s Constitution: the Relationship between the Second and the Third Level | 第49-52页 |
| ·The Paradox of Possessing to the Reader | 第52-57页 |
| ·Reader’s Actualization of the Way Ash Possesses Modern Scholars | 第52-55页 |
| ·Reader’s Actualization of the Way Ash is Possessed | 第55-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-61页 |
