| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-12页 |
| Introduction | 第15-39页 |
| A Brief Introduction to A. S. Byatt: Her Life and Works | 第15-17页 |
| Literature Review | 第17-30页 |
| The Theoretical Framework of the Dissertation | 第30-36页 |
| The Argument and Structure of the Dissertation | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter One A Vision as a Religious Reverie | 第39-57页 |
| 1.1 A Visionary as an Artist | 第39-43页 |
| 1.2 A Vision as a Religious Revelation | 第43-47页 |
| 1.3 The Features of the Religious Visionaries in the Tetralogy | 第47-57页 |
| Chapter Two Religions as Literary Symbols | 第57-96页 |
| 2.1 Lucas's Alchemical Vision in The Virgin in the Garden | 第57-66页 |
| 2.2 Van Gogh's Vision of Fertility in Still Life | 第66-75页 |
| 2.3 Culvert's Vision of Violence in Babel Tower | 第75-81页 |
| 2.4 Josh Lamb's Manichean Vision in A Whistling Woman | 第81-87页 |
| 2.5 The Symbolic Implications of the Four Religions | 第87-96页 |
| Chapter Three The Philosopher's Stone as a Metaphor | 第96-133页 |
| 3.1 The Alchemical Patterns of the Tetralogy | 第96-107页 |
| 3.2 Geometrical Patterns as a Metaphor of Metaphor | 第107-126页 |
| 3.3 The Feminist Implications of the Tetralogy | 第126-133页 |
| Conclusion | 第133-137页 |
| Bibliography | 第137-146页 |
