| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-15页 |
| ·The aims and procedures of the study | 第10-13页 |
| ·The methodology of the study | 第13页 |
| ·The significance of the study | 第13页 |
| ·The organization of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 The foregrounding theory | 第15-60页 |
| ·The development of the foregrounding theory | 第15-45页 |
| ·Historical origins of the foregrounding theory | 第15-17页 |
| ·Shklovsky's 'defamiliarization' | 第17-21页 |
| ·Mukarovsky's 'foregrounding' | 第21-24页 |
| ·Jakobson's 'principle of equivalence' | 第24-31页 |
| ·Leech's redefining of foregrounding devices | 第31-35页 |
| ·Halliday's 'criteria of relevance' | 第35-40页 |
| ·Van Peer's integration and empirical test | 第40-45页 |
| ·Foregrounding:further inquiries | 第45-60页 |
| ·Foregrounding:the term | 第45-48页 |
| ·The realization of the aesthetic effects of foregrounding in literary text | 第48-56页 |
| ·An integrated model for stylistic analysis | 第56-60页 |
| Chapter 3 Authorial determination of foregrounding | 第60-68页 |
| ·Socio-cultural and literary background | 第60-62页 |
| ·Woolf's theory of fiction | 第62-65页 |
| ·The writing of To the Lighthouse | 第65-68页 |
| Chapter 4 Textual realization of foregrounding in To the Lighthouse | 第68-125页 |
| ·Phonological foregrounding | 第68-85页 |
| ·Multitudinous phonemic repetitions | 第70-81页 |
| ·Chiasmus | 第81-85页 |
| ·Syntactic foregrounding | 第85-101页 |
| ·Expansive sentence structure | 第86-94页 |
| ·Repetition and parallelism | 第94-101页 |
| ·Semantic foregrounding | 第101-117页 |
| ·Metaphorical deviation | 第102-113页 |
| ·Symbolism throughout | 第113-117页 |
| ·Fictional foregrounding | 第117-125页 |
| ·Kaleidoscopic narrative techniques | 第117-121页 |
| ·Deviant ternary structure | 第121-125页 |
| Chapter 5 The holistic style of To the Lighthouse | 第125-133页 |
| ·The cohesion and density of foregrounding | 第125-129页 |
| ·The holistic impression given by the foregrounded features | 第129-133页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第133-138页 |
| ·Summary | 第133-135页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第135-136页 |
| ·Suggestions for further research | 第136-138页 |
| References | 第138-144页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ The density of chiasmus:an example | 第144-145页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ The chiasmic structure formed by Part One and Part Three | 第145-146页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第146页 |