| Abstract (Chinese) | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter One Willa Cather and Her Migration | 第14-25页 |
| ·Cather's Literary Life as a Perilous Journey | 第14-18页 |
| ·Willa Cather and American Migration | 第18-22页 |
| ·The Four novels as a Saga of Migration | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Two Physical Migration in the Saga | 第25-32页 |
| ·Physical Migration as International and Internal Migration | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Patterns of Migration as Voluntary and Forced Migration | 第27-32页 |
| Chapter Three Psychic Migration in the Saga | 第32-38页 |
| ·Psychic Migration between Rootedness and Uprootedness | 第33-34页 |
| ·Psychic Migration between Home and Homeless | 第34-36页 |
| ·Psychic Migration between the staying and the Going | 第36-37页 |
| ·Psychic Migration between the Past and the Present | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter Four Cultural Migration in the Saga | 第38-46页 |
| ·Cultural Conflicts between Settlers and Immigrants | 第39-40页 |
| ·Cultural Blending of Immigrants | 第40-41页 |
| ·Cultural Assimilation of Internal Migrants | 第41-43页 |
| ·CuIturaI Migration and Missionaries | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter Five Catherian Logic of Migration | 第46-56页 |
| ·The Sense of the Past and Elsewhere of those Migrants | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Success of the Real Migrants and Decline of the Quasi-migrants | 第47-56页 |
| Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-63页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第63页 |
