| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第4-9页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第9-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-28页 |
| Studies of Murdoch's Novels: A Critical Review | 第16-23页 |
| Preliminary Interpretive Considerations and the Arguments | 第23-28页 |
| Chapter One: Origin of Type-on Murdoch's Theory of Novel | 第28-57页 |
| Contingency as the Nature of Reality | 第30-41页 |
| Consciousness as the Form of Moral Being | 第41-47页 |
| Cave as Modern Man's Moral Situation | 第47-57页 |
| Chapter Two: Trapped in the Illusion of Form-Man in the Cave (I) | 第57-99页 |
| The Nature of Form | 第60-68页 |
| Man Haunted by the Religious Form of God-Myth | 第68-83页 |
| Man Perplexed by the Theoretical Form | 第83-99页 |
| Chapter Three: Worshiping the Specialized Power-Man in the Cave (II) | 第99-144页 |
| The Power to Will | 第101-109页 |
| Man Indulging in the Mysterious Power | 第109-118页 |
| Man Acting as Instrument of Justice | 第118-131页 |
| Man Aspiring to the Religious Power | 第131-144页 |
| Chapter Four: In Pursuit of the Good-Man out of the Cave | 第144-195页 |
| The Reality of the Good | 第144-151页 |
| Man of Enlightenment | 第151-172页 |
| Girls of Innocence | 第172-184页 |
| Man of Humility | 第184-195页 |
| Chapter Five: Narrative as Rhetoric of Thoughts | 第195-227页 |
| Changelessness and Change: Plot in Murdoch's Novels | 第196-206页 |
| Conflicts and Dialogue: Characterization in Murdoch's Novels | 第206-220页 |
| Plausibility and Elusiveness: An Unhistorical Setting in Murdoch's Novels | 第220-227页 |
| Conclusion | 第227-235页 |
| Writing of Value: the Ethical Significance | 第228-231页 |
| Thoughts Rhetoricalizing: the Creative Significance | 第231-235页 |
| Bibliography | 第235-241页 |
