| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-17页 |
| J. M. Coetzee the Author | 第7-9页 |
| Disgrace the Novel | 第9-10页 |
| Literature Review | 第10-13页 |
| Theoretical Framework and Structure of the Thesis | 第13-17页 |
| CHAPTER ONEResponsibility to the Other: Ethics in“Story” | 第17-33页 |
| 1.1 Racial Reconciliation: Historical Burdens vs. Individual Responsibility | 第17-23页 |
| 1.2 Gender Trouble: Male Subjectivity vs. Female Objectivity | 第23-28页 |
| 1.3 Species Barrier: Human Privilege vs. Animal Liberation | 第28-33页 |
| CHAPTER TWOPersistence to Love: Ethics in“Discourse” | 第33-48页 |
| 2.1 Focalization and Counter-Focalization: A Self-Review for Ethical Life | 第33-38页 |
| 2.2 Intertextuality: Lessons Learned from Romantic Poets | 第38-43页 |
| 2.3 Anti-Realism: Responsibilities in Representing the Evil | 第43-48页 |
| CHAPTER THREERestoration of Grace: Ethics in“Reading” | 第48-55页 |
| 3.1 Readerly Dynamics in Mimetic Sphere: Revaluation of Coetzee | 第48-51页 |
| 3.2 Readerly Dynamics in Thematic Sphere: Redefinition of Grace | 第51-55页 |
| Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-61页 |