| Abstract | 第2页 |
| 摘要 | 第3-4页 |
| 中文文摘 | 第4-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-25页 |
| 1.1 Carson McCullers and Her Lonely Southerners | 第9-15页 |
| 1.1.1 Carson McCullers:Life and Literary Career | 第9-12页 |
| 1.1.2 Literature Reviews on The Heart is A Lonely Hunter | 第12-15页 |
| 1.2 The "Space Turn" in the Late 20th Century | 第15-23页 |
| 1.2.1 Michael Foucault and The Theory of Heterotopias | 第17-20页 |
| 1.2.2 Gaston Bachelard and The Poetics of Space | 第20-23页 |
| 1.3 Approach and Framework of This Thesis | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two The Southern Town Presented with Twofold Space | 第25-31页 |
| 2.1 The Geographically Tranquil Space of Warmth | 第25-27页 |
| 2.2 The Spiritually Stifling Space of Estrangement | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter Three Dreaming in the Space of Warmth | 第31-43页 |
| 3.1 The Poetic Space with Warm Curves | 第31-33页 |
| 3.2 Southerners Curling Up Peacefully in Corners | 第33-43页 |
| 3.2.1 The Observer in Corners | 第33-34页 |
| 3.2.2 The Mute in Corners | 第34-36页 |
| 3.2.3 Dreamers in Corners | 第36-43页 |
| Chapter Four Being Suffocated in the Space of Estrangement | 第43-53页 |
| 4.1 The Stifling Space with Grim Lines | 第43-45页 |
| 4.2 Southerners Plunging Themselves into Plights | 第45-53页 |
| 4.2.1 Deaths of Antonapoulos, Singer and Dr. Copeland | 第47-48页 |
| 4.2.2 Jake's Leaving and Wandering | 第48-49页 |
| 4.2.3 Mick and Biff's Waiting | 第49-53页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion:Space-Marker of Heart | 第53-57页 |
| References | 第57-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61-63页 |
| 个人简历 | 第63-67页 |
