| 论文摘要 | 第1-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9-14页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第14-16页 |
| Introduction | 第16-34页 |
| Chapter One—Toward the Poetics of "pe endeles knot" | 第34-65页 |
| 1.Dynamics of "Trawpe"—Hierarchical Discipline | 第37-46页 |
| 2.The Christian Rhetoric | 第46-52页 |
| 3."Luf-talking"—Courtly Discourse | 第52-65页 |
| Chapter Two—Threefold Schism in Chivalric Ideology | 第65-86页 |
| 1.Paradigmatic Heroes and Sir Gawain as a Pentangle Hero | 第66-73页 |
| 2.Threefold Schism in Chivalric Ideology | 第73-86页 |
| Chapter Three—Chivalry under Siege | 第86-118页 |
| 1.The Contestation between Self and Chivalric Ideology | 第87-96页 |
| 2.Camelot and Hautdesert—the Two Worlds | 第96-104页 |
| 3.Voice of Morgan | 第104-118页 |
| Chapter Four—"pe lasse I yow blame"—A Poet of Humanity | 第118-147页 |
| 1.The Gawain-poet's Anonymity and His Triple Identities | 第119-125页 |
| 2.The Gawain-poet's Attitude toward Chivalry | 第125-132页 |
| 3."Pe lasse I yow blame"—A Poet of Humanity | 第132-147页 |
| Chapter Five—From Pattern to Individual:The New Configurations of Romance | 第147-176页 |
| 1.From Action to Psyche—the Emergence of an Inner Man | 第149-155页 |
| 2.From Perfect to Imperfect—the Breach of Dualism in Character-building | 第155-161页 |
| 3.From Fancy to Real—the Gawain-poet's Realism and Its Ideological Function | 第161-169页 |
| 4.From Happy to Transcendental—On the Open Ending | 第169-176页 |
| Conclusion | 第176-179页 |
| Selected Bibliography | 第179-193页 |
