| Abstract(English) | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract(Chinese) | 第6-13页 |
| Chapter One: General Comparison between English and Scottish Popular Ballads and the Book of Poetry | 第13-55页 |
| ·Introduction to English and Scottish Popular Ballads and the Book of Poetry | 第13-27页 |
| ·Ballad | 第13-18页 |
| ·English and Scottish Popular Ballads and its Compilation | 第18-22页 |
| ·The Book of Poetry and its Compilation | 第22-27页 |
| ·Criticisms on English and Scottish Popular Ballads and the Book of Poetry | 第27-53页 |
| ·Literary Status and Influence | 第27-32页 |
| ·Criticisms | 第32-53页 |
| ·Summary and Further Research | 第53-55页 |
| Chapter Two: Narratology and Narrative of Poetry | 第55-64页 |
| ·Review of Narratology | 第55-62页 |
| ·Development of Classical Narratology | 第56-60页 |
| ·Development of Post-classical Narratology | 第60-62页 |
| ·The Application of Narratology in the Study of Poetry | 第62-64页 |
| Chapter Three: Narrative Patterns of Poetry | 第64-191页 |
| ·Classical Definitions and Narrative Features of Poetry | 第64-80页 |
| ·Classical Definitions to Poetry | 第64-67页 |
| ·Narrative Modes from the Perspective of Classical Definitions | 第67-75页 |
| ·Discourse and Story | 第67-75页 |
| ·Static Narration and Dynamic Narration | 第75-79页 |
| ·Summary | 第79-80页 |
| ·Narrative Modes of Perspectives | 第80-127页 |
| ·Introduction | 第80-85页 |
| ·First-person Narration | 第85-103页 |
| ·The First-person Narration in English and Scottish Popular Ballads and the Book of Poetry | 第86-89页 |
| ·Narrator's Participation | 第89-94页 |
| ·"I" as Protagonist | 第89-92页 |
| ·"I" as Witness | 第92-94页 |
| ·Narrator's Interference | 第94-100页 |
| ·First-person Lead-in | 第95-96页 |
| ·First-person Jump-in | 第96-98页 |
| ·First-person Conclusion | 第98-100页 |
| ·Narrator's Self-consciousness | 第100-103页 |
| ·Second-person Narration | 第103-115页 |
| ·Introduction | 第103-105页 |
| ·Second-person Narration in the Book of Poetry and English and Scottish Popular Ballads | 第105-115页 |
| ·Modes of Second-person Narratives in the Book of Poetry | 第105-113页 |
| ·Modes of the Second-person Narration in English and Scottish Popular Ballads | 第113-115页 |
| ·Third-person Narration | 第115-126页 |
| ·Introduction | 第115页 |
| ·Omniscient Point of View | 第115-120页 |
| ·Character's Point of View | 第120-122页 |
| ·Observer's Point of View | 第122-126页 |
| ·Summary | 第126-127页 |
| ·Modes of Expression | 第127-157页 |
| ·Fu and Speech | 第128-141页 |
| ·Fu | 第128-133页 |
| ·Speech | 第133-141页 |
| ·Bi, Xing and Figurative Expressions | 第141-156页 |
| ·Bi, Xing and Argumentations on them | 第141-143页 |
| ·Theoretic Research on Bi and Xing | 第143-156页 |
| ·Summary | 第156-157页 |
| ·Patterns of Metrics | 第157-180页 |
| ·Metre | 第158-165页 |
| ·Metre of the Book of Poetry | 第159-160页 |
| ·Metre of English and Scottish Popular Ballads | 第160-165页 |
| ·Rhyme | 第165-179页 |
| ·Major Rhyme Schemes | 第166-173页 |
| ·Rhyme as a Narrative Mode | 第173-179页 |
| ·Summary | 第179-180页 |
| ·Musical Features | 第180-191页 |
| ·Musical Features in the Book of Poetry | 第180-184页 |
| ·Musical Features in English and Scottish Popular Ballads | 第184-190页 |
| ·Closing Remarks | 第190-191页 |
| Chapter Four: The Narrative Processes of Poetry | 第191-289页 |
| ·Plot and Plotting | 第191-204页 |
| ·Introduction | 第191-192页 |
| ·Morphological Deconstruction of Plot | 第192-203页 |
| ·Feasibility of Applying Propp's Morphology to the Interpretation of Poetry | 第194-196页 |
| ·Morphological Analysis | 第196-203页 |
| ·Summary | 第203-204页 |
| ·Character and Characterization | 第204-233页 |
| ·Introduction | 第204-207页 |
| ·Characters in English and Scottish Popular Ballads and the Book of Poetry | 第207-232页 |
| ·Knights | 第208-209页 |
| ·Kings and Peers | 第209-213页 |
| ·Women Characters | 第213-219页 |
| ·Animal Characters | 第219-222页 |
| ·Robin Hood: the Outlaw | 第222-232页 |
| ·Closing Remarks | 第232-233页 |
| ·Text and Context | 第233-289页 |
| ·What is a Text? | 第233-235页 |
| ·What is a Context? | 第235-239页 |
| ·The Relationship between Text and Context | 第239-246页 |
| ·The Making of Poetic Texts | 第246-287页 |
| ·The Beginnings and the Endings | 第246-267页 |
| ·How Poems Begin | 第246-257页 |
| ·How Poems End | 第257-267页 |
| ·Summary | 第267页 |
| ·Coherence and Cohesion | 第267-287页 |
| ·Cohesive Ties in Poetic Texts | 第269-276页 |
| ·Over-cohesion, Under-cohesion and Anti-cohesion | 第276-287页 |
| ·.Cohesive Strength | 第276-277页 |
| ·.Over-cohesion | 第277-280页 |
| ·.Under-cohesion | 第280-282页 |
| ·.Anti-cohesion | 第282-287页 |
| ·Summary | 第287-289页 |
| Conclusion | 第289-295页 |
| Works Cited | 第295-306页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ: General Statistics of English and Scottish Popular Ballads | 第306-336页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ: General Statistics of the Book of Poetry | 第336-361页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第361-362页 |
