| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| 1.1 Introduction of Salman Rushdie and Midnight's Children | 第9-11页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第11-13页 |
| 1.3 Central Argument and Structure of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two General Introduction to Bakhtinian Theory | 第15-18页 |
| 2.1 Polyphonic Dialogue | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2 Carnivalesque Dialogue | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Three Polyphonic Dialogue in Midnight's Children | 第18-46页 |
| 3.1 Macro-dialogue | 第19-35页 |
| 3.1.1 Dialogue between the Author and Saleem | 第20-22页 |
| 3.1.2 Dialogue between Western Culture and Oriental Culture | 第22-29页 |
| 3.1.2.1 The Struggle between Saleem's Grandfather Aadam and the Traditional Defender Tai | 第23-26页 |
| 3.1.2.2 Aadam's Lifetime Confrontation with His Traditional Wife | 第26-28页 |
| 3.1.2.3 The Fusion of the Western and the Eastern Culture | 第28-29页 |
| 3.1.3 Dialogue between Different Religious Cultures | 第29-33页 |
| 3.1.4 Dialogue between Different Languages | 第33-35页 |
| 3.2 Micro-dialogue | 第35-46页 |
| 3.2.1 Multi-voicedness in Midnight's Children | 第36-42页 |
| 3.2.2 Double-voiced Discourse in Midnight's Children | 第42-46页 |
| Chapter Four Carnivalesque Dialogue in Midnight's Children | 第46-52页 |
| 4.1 The Carnivalization of Artistic Thinking: Crowning/Dccrowning | 第47-50页 |
| 4.2 Carnivalesque Images一Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| References | 第54-56页 |
| Publication | 第56页 |
