| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第10-18页 |
| ·About Bernard Malamud | 第10-13页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第13-15页 |
| ·Focus of This Thesis | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter Two MALAMUD'S ELUSIVE JEWISH IDENTITY AND ITS REFLECTION INHIS FICTION | 第18-26页 |
| ·Bernard Malamud:An Americanized Jewish Writer | 第18-21页 |
| ·Reflection of Malamud's Elusive Jewishness in His Fiction | 第21-26页 |
| Chapter Three SPIRITUAL IMPRISONMENT OF THE ROOTLESS JEWS IN THESTORIES AND ITS CAUSES | 第26-50页 |
| ·Spiritual Imprisonment in the Short Stories | 第27-44页 |
| ·Prison of the Self | 第27-33页 |
| ·Failed Father-Son Relations | 第33-38页 |
| ·Imprisonment as Jewishness | 第38-44页 |
| ·Causes for the Spiritual Imprisonment | 第44-50页 |
| ·World War Ⅱ as A Compelling Force of Alienation of Man | 第45-48页 |
| ·American Culture as a Curse for Jewish Identity | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four TRANSCENDENCE FROM SPIRITUAL IMPRISONMENT | 第50-60页 |
| ·Social Background and Literary Trends Behind Transcendence | 第50-52页 |
| ·Realization of Transcendence | 第52-60页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第60-63页 |
| REFERENCES | 第63-66页 |
