| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| 1.1 Woolf and the novel | 第9-10页 |
| 1.2 Literature review | 第10-12页 |
| 1.3 Layout of the thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two Quest Motif | 第13-16页 |
| 2.1 Narrative motifs | 第13页 |
| 2.2 Archetypes | 第13-14页 |
| 2.3 Quest motif | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Three A Deconstruction of the Archetype:Blurring of Boundaries- Start of a Journey | 第16-23页 |
| 3.1 Public and private sphere:Orlando's identity crisis | 第16-19页 |
| 3.1.1 An outsider in reality | 第16-17页 |
| 3.1.2 A poet of ideal | 第17-18页 |
| 3.1.3 Being loved by the Queen—eager to be alone but fearful of loneliness | 第18-19页 |
| 3.2 Male and Female:physical ambiguity | 第19-20页 |
| 3.3 Narrative and descriptive | 第20-21页 |
| 3.4 Incredible span of time and space | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Four On the Road | 第23-34页 |
| 4.1 "Man's treachery":Orlando's first attempt to love | 第23-25页 |
| 4.1.1 A fox in the snow— Sasha as a foreigner and a female | 第23-24页 |
| 4.1.2 Orlando as a lover | 第24-25页 |
| 4.2 Experience of oriental mystery | 第25-27页 |
| 4.2.1 Political "achievements" | 第25-26页 |
| 4.2.2 Life with gypsies | 第26-27页 |
| 4.3 Sexual transition- access to two worlds | 第27-34页 |
| 4.3.1 Quest for writing | 第27-29页 |
| 4.3.2 "Life! Lover!" Quest for identity as a women and marriage | 第29-34页 |
| 4.3.2.1 Dress vs. Trousers | 第30页 |
| 4.3.2.2 Understanding and contempt | 第30-31页 |
| 4.3.2.3 Love and lover | 第31-34页 |
| Chapter Five Returning Suspended discourse:Alteration but a Compromise | 第34-39页 |
| 5.1 A Genius writer or not? | 第34-36页 |
| 5.1.1 Reunion with Nick Greene | 第34-35页 |
| 5.1.2 Poetry and prize | 第35-36页 |
| 5.2 Is marriage the cure? | 第36-39页 |
| 5.2.1 Marriage in observation | 第36-37页 |
| 5.2.2 Bride of the nature | 第37页 |
| 5.2.3 Love and marriage with Shelmerdin | 第37-39页 |
| Conclusion | 第39-41页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第41-42页 |
| References | 第42-43页 |
