| Acknowledgments | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| 1 Background of city writing in Western literature | 第11-12页 |
| 2 Literature review of James Joyce and Dubliners | 第12-15页 |
| 3 Framework and significance of this thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter One Joyce's City Experience and Its Influence on His City Writing | 第17-27页 |
| ·Joyce's city experience | 第17-22页 |
| ·Joyce's experience in Dublin | 第17-20页 |
| ·Joyce's experience on the Continent | 第20-22页 |
| ·The influence of Joyce's city experience on his city writing | 第22-27页 |
| Chapter Two Joyce's Writing of City Space | 第27-40页 |
| ·Street as the outer space:the manifestation of rootlessness and oppression | 第28-31页 |
| ·House as the inner space:the prison of loneliness and confusion | 第31-34页 |
| ·Bar as the secular space:the contradiction of escape and enlightenment | 第34-37页 |
| ·Church as the sacred space:the deterioration of religion and belief | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Three Joyce's Writing of Urbanism | 第40-47页 |
| ·The commercialization in material life | 第41-43页 |
| ·The alienation in spiritual state | 第43-47页 |
| Chapter Four Joyce's Writing of the Redemption of Dublin | 第47-55页 |
| ·Generosity:a traditional virtue and a broad mind | 第48-50页 |
| ·Love:an interpersonal affection and a patriotic feeling | 第50-55页 |
| Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| Works Cited | 第57-60页 |
| Publications | 第60页 |
