| 内容提要 | 第4-5页 |
| Synopsis | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Abstract | 第11-16页 |
| Contents | 第16-17页 |
| Introduction | 第17-21页 |
| Chapter One The Irrational Dreaminess of Poe’s work | 第21-37页 |
| 1.1 Demonstration of Irrational Dreaminess in Poe’s Works | 第21-30页 |
| 1.1.1 Setting of the Circumstances | 第21-24页 |
| 1.1.2 Fanciful Images | 第24-27页 |
| 1.1.3 Dramatic Plots and Dialogues | 第27-30页 |
| 1.2 Reasons why Poe’s so obsessed with Imagination and Dreams | 第30-37页 |
| 1.2.1 Life Experience | 第30-33页 |
| 1.2.2 Inheritance from Romantic Tradition | 第33-37页 |
| Chapter Two Poe’s Rational Thought and Its Origin | 第37-47页 |
| 2.1 Rational Components in Poe’s Poetry | 第37-39页 |
| 2.2 The Origin of Poe’s Rational Thought | 第39-44页 |
| 2.2.1 Inheritance from Aristotle | 第39-41页 |
| 2.2.2 Inheritance from Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 第41-42页 |
| 2.2.3 Poe’s Inheritance from Immanuel Kant | 第42-44页 |
| 2.3 Poe’s Rational Poetic Theory | 第44-47页 |
| 2.3.1 Pure Poetry | 第44-45页 |
| 2.3.2 Unity of Effect | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Three Artistic Beauty between Rationality and Irrationality | 第47-56页 |
| 3.1 Charm of Tension Between Life and Death | 第47-49页 |
| 3.2 Charm of Tension Between Reality and Imagination | 第49-51页 |
| 3.3 Rational and Irrational Components and Their Collision in “The Raven” | 第51-56页 |
| Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Work Cited | 第58-60页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第60-61页 |
| 作者简介及科研成果 | 第61页 |
