| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Abstract | 第11-20页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第20-56页 |
| ·Chapter Introduction | 第20-21页 |
| ·An Introduction to James Phelan: Life and Works | 第21-27页 |
| ·A Brief Sketch of Phelan’s Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Principles, Issues,and Contributions | 第27-39页 |
| ·Basic Principles | 第27-32页 |
| ·Major Issues | 第32-36页 |
| ·Significant Contributions | 第36-39页 |
| ·Studies of Phelan’s Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: A Review | 第39-52页 |
| ·Studies of Phelan in the West | 第39-47页 |
| ·Studies of Phelan in China | 第47-52页 |
| ·Organization of the Dissertation | 第52-54页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter 2 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Phelan’s Theory of Narrative Progression | 第56-110页 |
| ·Chapter Introduction | 第56-57页 |
| ·Plot Studies in the Context of Classical Narratology | 第57-69页 |
| ·The Russian Formalists’Conceptions of Plot | 第59-63页 |
| ·The French Structuralists’Conceptions of Plot | 第63-69页 |
| ·Phelan’s Theory of Narrative Progression | 第69-106页 |
| ·The Definitions of Narrative Progression | 第69-75页 |
| ·Textual Dynamics: Characters, Instabilities, and Narrative Progression | 第75-80页 |
| ·Readerly Dynamics: Audiences, Tensions, and Narrative Progression | 第80-87页 |
| ·A Synthesis of Textual Dynamics and Readerly Dynamics: Aspects of Narrative Progression | 第87-96页 |
| ·Narrative Progression in Lyricality and Portraiture | 第96-101页 |
| ·Effects of Narrative Progression | 第101-106页 |
| ·Reflections on Phelan’s Theory of Narrative Progression | 第106-108页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第108-110页 |
| Chapter 3 A New Light on the Old Concept: Phelan’s Theory of Character Narrator | 第110-138页 |
| ·Chapter Introduction | 第110页 |
| ·A Review of Analytical Concepts of the Narrator | 第110-123页 |
| ·The Nature of the Narrator | 第111-115页 |
| ·The Typology of the Narrator | 第115-121页 |
| ·The Functions of the Narrator | 第121-123页 |
| ·Phelan’s Theory of Character Narrator | 第123-135页 |
| ·The Definition of Character Narrator | 第124-126页 |
| ·The Functions of Character Narrator | 第126-130页 |
| ·The Typology of Character Narrator | 第130-135页 |
| ·Reflections on Phelan’s Theory of Character Narrator | 第135-136页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第136-138页 |
| Chapter 4 The Rhetorical Approach Revisited and Updated: Phelan’s Theory of Unreliable Narration | 第138-187页 |
| ·Chapter Introduction | 第138-139页 |
| ·A Review of Unreliable Narration Studies | 第139-156页 |
| ·The Classical Rhetorical Approach | 第140-147页 |
| ·The Cognitive/Constructive Approach | 第147-154页 |
| ·Some Minor Approaches | 第154-156页 |
| ·Phelan’s Theory of Unreliable Narration | 第156-179页 |
| ·The First Revisit to Rhetorical Approach: A Taxonomy of Six Types | 第157-163页 |
| ·The Second Revisit to Rhetorical Approach: Estranging Unreliability, and Bonding Unreliability | 第163-175页 |
| ·Expanding the Territory: An Inquiry into Unreliable Narration in Non-Fictional Narratives | 第175-179页 |
| ·Reflections on Phelan’s Theory of Unreliable Narration | 第179-185页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第185-187页 |
| Chapter 5 “Narrator as Focalizer”, and “Dual Focalization”: Phelan’s Theory of Focalization | 第187-215页 |
| ·Chapter Introduction | 第187-188页 |
| ·A Review of Focalization Studies | 第188-198页 |
| ·Traditional Conceptions of “Point of View” | 第188-193页 |
| ·Studies of Focalization in the Context of Classical Narratology | 第193-198页 |
| ·Phelan’s Theory of Focalization | 第198-210页 |
| ·Narrator as Focalizer: A Challenge to Seymour Chatman and Gerald Prince | 第199-204页 |
| ·The Being of “Dual Focalization” | 第204-207页 |
| ·The Consequences of “Narrator as Focalizer”and “Dual Focalization” | 第207-210页 |
| ·Reflections on Phelan’s Theory of Focalization | 第210-213页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第213-215页 |
| Chapter 6 The Activation of Multileveled Responses: Phelan’s Theory of Narrative Judgments | 第215-237页 |
| ·Chapter Introduction | 第215页 |
| ·General Theses about Narrative Judgments | 第215-225页 |
| ·The Interrelations among Narrative Judgments | 第225-229页 |
| ·The Effects of Narrative Judgments | 第229-231页 |
| ·Reflections on Phelan’s Theory of Narrative Judgments | 第231-235页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第235-237页 |
| Chapter 7 The Ethics of “the Told”, the Ethics of “the Telling”, and the Ethics of “the Reading”: Phelan’s Theory of Narrative Ethics | 第237-269页 |
| ·Chapter Introduction | 第237-238页 |
| ·A Review of Ethical Criticism in Literary Studies | 第238-245页 |
| ·The Ups and Downs of Ethical Criticism: A Brief Sketch | 第238-240页 |
| ·The Ethical Turn: Causes and Consequences | 第240-242页 |
| ·Three Figures in the Grand Line of the Ethical Turn: Wayne C. Booth,Martha C. Nussbaum, and Adam Zachary Newton | 第242-245页 |
| ·Phelan’s Theory of Narrative Ethics | 第245-263页 |
| ·Reconstruction and Evaluation: Two Steps of Rhetorical Theory of Narrative Ethics | 第247-250页 |
| ·A Taxonomy of Ethical Positions | 第250-255页 |
| ·Narrative Progression and Narrative Ethics | 第255-257页 |
| ·Unreliable Narration and Narrative Ethics | 第257-260页 |
| ·Focalization and Narrative Ethics | 第260-262页 |
| ·Narrative Judgments and Narrative Ethics | 第262-263页 |
| ·From Rhetorical Ethics to Rhetorical Aesthetics | 第263-265页 |
| ·Reflections on Phelan’s Theory of Narrative Ethics | 第265-267页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第267-269页 |
| Chapter 8 Conclusion | 第269-277页 |
| ·Chapter Introduction | 第269-270页 |
| ·A Summary of This Study | 第270-273页 |
| ·Implications of This Study | 第273-275页 |
| ·Limitations of This Study and Suggestions for Future Studies | 第275-277页 |
| References | 第277-298页 |
| 攻读学位期间取得的主要科研成果 | 第298-301页 |
| 上海交通大学博士学位论文答辩决议书 | 第301页 |
