| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| Chapter One Western Fantasy Heritage and Edgar Allan Poe | 第16-30页 |
| Ⅰ. Fantasy Heritage in Western Literature | 第16-20页 |
| Ⅱ. Characteristics of the Western Fantasy Literature | 第20-24页 |
| Ⅲ. Allan Poe's Transcendence over Western Fantasy Heritage | 第24-30页 |
| Chapter Two Literary Worlds of Allan Poe Narrated in Fantasy | 第30-44页 |
| Ⅰ. Reviewing the Lost History and Tradition in Western World | 第31-35页 |
| Ⅱ. Presenting the Early Disordered American Society and Its Psychological Morbidity | 第35-39页 |
| Ⅲ. Prophesying the Living Dilemma, and the Cultural and Spiritual Crisis in Modern Society | 第39-44页 |
| Chapter Three Fantasy as a Narrative Strategy in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories | 第44-57页 |
| Ⅰ. Temporal Dimension of Allan Poe's Fantasy Narrative | 第45-48页 |
| Ⅱ. Spatial Dimension of Allan Poe's Fantasy Narrative | 第48-51页 |
| Ⅲ. Characters of Allan Poe's Fantasy Narrative | 第51-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-60页 |
| Notes | 第60-63页 |
| Works Cited | 第63-66页 |
