| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Introduction | 第6-10页 |
| Ⅰ Paradox | 第10-33页 |
| 1．1 Paradoxes as Reversals in Earnest and Travesties | 第10-16页 |
| 1．2 ”Life Holds the Mirror up to Art”-A Crucial Paradox | 第16-23页 |
| 1．3 Contradiction Embodied in Paradoxes | 第23-29页 |
| 1．4 Marginality（Non-Englishness）and Reversals in Paradoxes | 第29-33页 |
| Ⅱ Parody | 第33-46页 |
| 2．1 Parody:AParadox in Dealing with the Convention-Inheriting Through Subverting | 第33-36页 |
| 2．2 The Dramatic Conventions Parodied in Earnest and Travesties | 第36-46页 |
| Ⅲ Self-consciousness | 第46-62页 |
| 3．1 Self-Consciousness in Parody and Assimilation of Popular Forms | 第46-53页 |
| 3．2 The Criticas Artist:the Self-Conscious Critical Spirit in the Artist and the Combination of Creati on and Criticism | 第53-56页 |
| 3．3 Self-Consciousness of the Role and Functions of Art and Artist | 第56-62页 |
| Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| Notes | 第65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-71页 |
