| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-16页 |
| Chapter 1 A Dialogic Reading of Love in The Ballad of the Sad Café | 第16-27页 |
| 1. McCullers’ Texts and the Feasible Dialogic Reading | 第16-19页 |
| 2. The Lovers and the Beloveds | 第19-23页 |
| 3. Love as an Affirmative Search of the Self | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter 2 A Dialogic Reading of Identity in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | 第27-37页 |
| Ⅰ. Individuals and their Fights against the World | 第27-31页 |
| Ⅱ. Individual Resistance in Vain | 第31-34页 |
| Ⅲ. Love and Acceptance as Affirmation | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter 3 A Dialogic Reading of Affirmation in The Member of the Wedding | 第37-45页 |
| Ⅰ. Round Table in the Kitchen | 第37-40页 |
| Ⅱ. Mick and Frankie’s Innocent yet Radical Resistance | 第40-42页 |
| Ⅲ. Frankie and her Capacity of Change | 第42-45页 |
| Conclusion | 第45-47页 |
| Bibliography | 第47-51页 |
