| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-17页 |
| 1.1 Brief Introduction to A Mercy | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Research Background | 第14-15页 |
| 1.3 Research Questions & Research Significance | 第15-16页 |
| 1.4 Structure of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-28页 |
| 2.1 Previous Studies on A Mercy | 第17-18页 |
| 2.2 The Development of Corpus Stylistics | 第18-20页 |
| 2.3 Corpus Stylistics in Literary Studies | 第20-22页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第22-23页 |
| 2.5 Theoretical Foundation | 第23-28页 |
| 2.5.1 Narrative Progression | 第24-28页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第28-39页 |
| 3.1 Michael Toolan’s Eight Parameters of Narrative Prospection | 第28-35页 |
| 3.2 Corpus Building | 第35-37页 |
| 3.3 Data Retrieval | 第37-39页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS | 第39-67页 |
| 4.1 The Textual Features Guiding the Narrative Progression of A Mercy | 第40-41页 |
| 4.2 Sentences Featuring Named Main Characters | 第41-49页 |
| 4.2.1 Instabilities within Florens | 第43-46页 |
| 4.2.2 Instabilities between Florens and Minha M?e | 第46-47页 |
| 4.2.3 Instabilities between Female and their Environments | 第47-49页 |
| 4.3 Narrative-tense Verbs and Modality Verbs | 第49-54页 |
| 4.3.1 Instabilities within Jacob | 第50-52页 |
| 4.3.2 Instabilities between Jacob and the American Continent of 1680 | 第52页 |
| 4.3.3 Instabilities between Jacob and D’Ortega | 第52-54页 |
| 4.4 Key Words and Key Clusters | 第54-67页 |
| 4.4.1 Tension in Readers’ Judgment | 第55-56页 |
| 4.4.2 Tension in Readers’ Judgment of Characters’ Narration | 第56-67页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第67-70页 |
| 5.1 Research Findings | 第67-69页 |
| 5.2 Limitations | 第69页 |
| 5.3 Suggestions for Future Study | 第69-70页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第70-75页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第75-76页 |
| APPENDIX | 第76-78页 |
| PAPERS PUBLISHED DURING MA STUDIES | 第78页 |
