| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Objectives of the Research | 第9-10页 |
| ·The Significance and Necessity of the Research | 第10-11页 |
| ·The General Framework of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-20页 |
| ·The Role of the TT Readers in Traditional Literary Translation Studies | 第13-16页 |
| ·Related Research in Chinese Translation Studies | 第14-15页 |
| ·Related Research in Western Translation Studies | 第15-16页 |
| ·Nida’s “Readers’Response”Theory | 第16-18页 |
| ·Reception Aesthetics | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Three Reception Aesthetics and Its Application in Literary Translation | 第20-32页 |
| ·Reception Aesthetics | 第20-26页 |
| ·Jauss’s Theory | 第20-23页 |
| ·Horizon of Expectations | 第21-23页 |
| ·Aesthetic Distance | 第23页 |
| ·Indeterminacy of Meaning | 第23-26页 |
| ·Ingarden’s Indeterminacy of Meaning | 第24页 |
| ·Wolfgang Iser’s Indeterminacy of Meaning | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Notion of Readers | 第26-30页 |
| ·The Translator —A Particular Reader | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Notion of Potential Readers | 第27-29页 |
| ·Relationship Among Translators, Potential Readers and Actual Readers | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Application of Reception Aesthetics in Literary Translation | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Four Case Study | 第32-49页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the Author: Thomas Hardy | 第32-33页 |
| ·Content of Tess of the D’urbervilles | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Target Text Readers’Reception in Translation Practice | 第34-49页 |
| ·The TT Readers’Reception Ability of Cultural-loaded Words | 第34-38页 |
| ·The TT Readers’Reception Ability of Allusions | 第35-36页 |
| ·The TT Readers’Reception Ability of Words with Peculiar Associative Meanings | 第36-38页 |
| ·The TT Readers’Linguistic Aesthetic Taste | 第38-39页 |
| ·The TT Readers’Ideology | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Influence on Retranslation | 第40-45页 |
| ·Synchronic Divergence of the TT Readers | 第42-44页 |
| ·Diachronic Divergence of the TT Readers | 第44-45页 |
| ·The TT Readers’Influence on Translation Criticism | 第45-49页 |
| ·The Value of the Criticism by the TT Readers | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Importance of the Criticism by the TT Readers | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-54页 |
