| Acknowledgement | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract English | 第6-10页 |
| Abstract Chinese | 第10-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-28页 |
| Chapter 1 The Reestablishment of the Reader’s Role in the History of Literary Criticism | 第28-57页 |
| ·The Reader in Traditional Literary Criticism | 第29-37页 |
| ·The Reader in the Reader-Oriented Criticism | 第37-57页 |
| ·The Various Models of the Reader | 第43-52页 |
| ·A Further Analysis of the Main Concepts of the Reader | 第52-57页 |
| Chapter 2 The Significance of Reading in Contemporary Literary Theory | 第57-79页 |
| ·The Relation Between Reading and Literary Meaning | 第62-65页 |
| ·The General Divisions of Reading | 第65-69页 |
| ·The Divisions of Reading Expounded by Theorists and Critics in Literary History | 第69-76页 |
| ·Passive Reading and Active Reading | 第76-79页 |
| Chapter 3 Reading as Secondary Creation | 第79-115页 |
| ·The Factors Relevant to the Reader’s Active Participation in Reading | 第80-93页 |
| ·The Objective Factors | 第81-87页 |
| ·The Subjective Factors | 第87-93页 |
| ·The Reader’s Active Role in His Concretization of the Text | 第93-104页 |
| ·The Reader’s Expectations Before Reading | 第95-98页 |
| ·The Adjustment of the Reader’s Expectations | 第98-100页 |
| ·The Filling up of the Blanks | 第100-104页 |
| ·The Levels of Secondary Creation of the Reader | 第104-105页 |
| ·The Reader’s Role in Different Sorts of Literary Works | 第105-115页 |
| ·The Difference Between Modernist Texts and Traditional Texts | 第105-113页 |
| ·The Role the Reader Plays in the Reading of the Three Sorts of Texts | 第113-115页 |
| Chapter 4 Reading and Misreading | 第115-132页 |
| ·Correct Reading and Misreading | 第117-123页 |
| ·The Definition of Misreading | 第117-118页 |
| ·The Divisions of Misreading | 第118-120页 |
| ·The Manifestations of Misreading | 第120-123页 |
| ·Harold Bloom’s Theory of Misprision | 第123-127页 |
| ·The Significance of Misreading to Literature | 第127-132页 |
| Chapter 5 Repetitive Reading And the Realization of Literary Value | 第132-147页 |
| ·The Necessity of Repetitive Reading | 第133-139页 |
| ·The Necessity as Viewed from the Text | 第133页 |
| ·The Necessity as Viewed from the Individual Reader | 第133-136页 |
| ·The Necessity as Viewed from Society and History | 第136-139页 |
| ·Reading and Literary Canon | 第139-144页 |
| ·The Definition of Literary Canon | 第139-141页 |
| ·Reading and the Formation of Literary Canon | 第141-144页 |
| ·Reading and the Realization of Literary Value | 第144-147页 |
| Conclusion | 第147-154页 |
| Bibliography | 第154-165页 |
