| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract in English | 第9-13页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第13-16页 |
| Introduction The Problem and the Possibility | 第16-36页 |
| Ⅰ.Chaucer as an Intellectual Man:A Review | 第17-21页 |
| Ⅱ.Possibility of Chaucer as an Intellectual | 第21-29页 |
| Ⅲ.The Layout of the Dissertation | 第29-36页 |
| Chapter One Counselor or Critic? | 第36-57页 |
| Ⅰ.Court Poet as Prince-pleaser,Counselor,or Critic? | 第36-42页 |
| Ⅱ.Chaucer's Counseling:The Tale of Melibee | 第42-50页 |
| Ⅲ.Between Counselor and Critic:Mirror for Prince | 第50-57页 |
| Chapter Two Chaucer as a Social Commentator | 第57-91页 |
| Ⅰ.Chaucer's Position:In and on the Society | 第60-67页 |
| Ⅱ.Writing as Social Practice:The Nun's Priest's Tale | 第67-72页 |
| Ⅲ.Women in Chaucer's Society:Criseyde and Wife of Bath | 第72-80页 |
| Ⅳ.Portraying of Clerics:Prioress,Pardoner,and Parson | 第80-91页 |
| Chapter Three Entertainer,Edifier and Enlightener | 第91-113页 |
| Ⅰ.The Role of an Enlightener:Authority Negotiated | 第91-103页 |
| Ⅱ.Literary Authority and Chaucer's Poetic Innovation | 第103-107页 |
| Ⅲ.Masculine Authority vs.Feminine Experience | 第107-113页 |
| Chapter Four Wisdom and / or Weakness | 第113-151页 |
| Ⅰ.Wisdom in Art:Commenting with Strategies | 第113-136页 |
| Ⅱ.Wisdom in Life:Chaucer and Chinese Shi | 第136-145页 |
| Ⅲ.Weakness or Not? | 第145-151页 |
| Conclusion Possibility of Transcending | 第151-155页 |
| 在读期间论文发表及科研项目清况 | 第155-156页 |
| Selected Bibliography | 第156-170页 |
