| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-24页 |
| I.The common magical realistic features in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Toni Morrison’s Beloved | 第24-44页 |
| A. Fragmentation | 第24-29页 |
| 1. Disorder of time | 第24-26页 |
| 2. Juxtaposition of narration | 第26-29页 |
| B. Absurdity—magical imaginations and Gothic descriptions | 第29-34页 |
| 1. Magical imaginations and Gothic descriptions in Nights at the Circus | 第30-32页 |
| 2. Magical imaginations and Gothic descriptions in Beloved | 第32-34页 |
| C. Symbols | 第34-44页 |
| 1. Settings—the circus and Sweet Home | 第34-36页 |
| 2. Characters’names—Cobwebs and Beloved | 第36-39页 |
| 3. Physical features—Fevvers’wings and the “tree”on Sethe’s | 第39-41页 |
| 4. Liquid symbols—menstrual blood and water | 第41-44页 |
| II. The differences of the magical realistic features in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Toni Morrison’s Beloved | 第44-60页 |
| A. The museum of woman monsters vs. the haunted community of Black slaves | 第44-50页 |
| 1. An unearthly White girl vs. a ghost-haunted Black slave | 第45-47页 |
| 2. Mignon vs. Denver | 第47-49页 |
| 3. Wiltshire Wonder vs. Ella | 第49-50页 |
| B. Western myths and fairy tales vs. African beliefs and legends | 第50-60页 |
| 1. The Western myths and fairy tales in Nights at the Circus | 第50-55页 |
| 2. The African beliefs and legends in Beloved | 第55-60页 |
| III.The causes of the common features and the differences of magical realism in the two novels | 第60-89页 |
| A. The causes of the common features | 第60-66页 |
| 1. The influence of the traditional Latin American magical realistic features | 第60-63页 |
| 2. The influence of postmodernism | 第63-66页 |
| B. The causes of the differences | 第66-89页 |
| 1. The influence of feminism vs. the effect of postcolonialism | 第66-80页 |
| 2. Western White culture vs. African Black culture | 第80-89页 |
| Conclusion | 第89-91页 |
| Bibliography | 第91-98页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第98页 |
