| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| ·Katherine Anne Porter and Her Major Works | 第10-12页 |
| ·Review of Research on Porter’s Works | 第12-15页 |
| ·The Significance of the Study | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Ethical Literary Criticism and Porter’s Ethical Ideas | 第17-25页 |
| ·Ethical Literary Criticism as an Approach to Literary Studies | 第17-21页 |
| ·Porter’s Ethical Ideas in Her Major Works | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Porter’s Ethical Ideas in Ship of Fools: Exposing the Inner Darkness of Human Race | 第25-48页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of Ship of Fools | 第25-27页 |
| ·Writing Background | 第25页 |
| ·The Main Ideas of the Novel | 第25-27页 |
| ·Porter’s Ethical Ideas on Religion | 第27-35页 |
| ·The Exclusiveness of Religion Leading to Racism and Anti-Semitism of Most Germans | 第27-32页 |
| ·Ship’s Captain Thiele: the Representative of Nazi Leader | 第28-29页 |
| ·Professor Hutten, Businessman Rieber and Businesswoman Lizzi:the Nazi Lackeys | 第29-31页 |
| ·Freytag: a Sacrifice to Anti-Semitism and a Social Reject Because of His Jewish Wife | 第31-32页 |
| ·Rigid Religious Beliefs Suppressing Man’s Personal Feelings | 第32-35页 |
| ·Porter’s Ethical Ideas on Social Intercourse and Family | 第35-38页 |
| ·A Spanish Zarzuela Company: Being Despicable, Merciless and Lacking Public Morals | 第35-36页 |
| ·Children in the Zarzuela Troupe: Being Innately Evil and Devoid of Innocence | 第36-38页 |
| ·Porter’s Ethical Ideas on Love and Marriage | 第38-44页 |
| ·Mary Treadwell: the Miserable Marriage Causing the Exposure of Inner Bestiality | 第39-41页 |
| ·Jenny: Being in a Dilemma of Pursuing True Happiness or Following Social Conventions | 第41-44页 |
| ·Porter’s Ethical Ideas on Social Bias | 第44-48页 |
| ·The Steerage Passengers: Lower Classes and Being Despised and Oppressed | 第44-45页 |
| ·Cabin Passengers’ Indifference to a Woodcarver’s Death | 第45-48页 |
| Chapter 4 Porter’s Views on the Roots of the Inner Darkness of Human Race | 第48-52页 |
| ·Social Root: the Negative Influences of Economic Crisis and Wars | 第48-49页 |
| ·Religious Root: the Divisions in Religious Beliefs | 第49-50页 |
| ·Family Root: the Lack of Parental Love | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-57页 |
| Publications During the Postgraduate Program | 第57-58页 |
