| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第8-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION | 第12-21页 |
| 1.1 Introduction to Theodore Dreiser and his works | 第12-15页 |
| 1.1.1 The life of Theodore Dreiser | 第12-13页 |
| 1.1.2 Theodore Dreiser's novels | 第13-15页 |
| 1.2 Introduction to Sister Carrie and its studies | 第15-19页 |
| 1.2.1 A brief Introduction to Sister Carrie | 第15-17页 |
| 1.2.2 The Critical Review of Sister Carrie | 第17-19页 |
| 1.3 The Realistic Significance of study | 第19-21页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ. AN OVERVIEW OF RECEPTION THEORY | 第21-29页 |
| 2.1 An Introduction to Reception Theory | 第21-23页 |
| 2.2 The Main Concepts of Reception Theory | 第23-25页 |
| 2.2.1 Jauss' Horizon of Expectations | 第23-24页 |
| 2.2.2 Iser's Indeterminacy | 第24-25页 |
| 2.3 The Reception of Sister Carrie | 第25-29页 |
| 2.3.1 The Reception of Sister Carrie in America | 第25-27页 |
| 2.3.2 The Study on the Reader's Response in China | 第27-29页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ. VIEWING SISTER CARRIE FROM RECEPTION THEORY | 第29-51页 |
| 3.1 The Acceptance of Sister Carrie by the Chinese Readers | 第29-41页 |
| 3.1.1 A Shift to the Chinese Readers | 第29-32页 |
| 3.1.2 Viewing Sister Carrie from Reader' Horizon Expectations | 第32-41页 |
| 3.2 The Concretization of Sister Carrie by the Chinese Readers | 第41-51页 |
| 3.2.1 Blanks in Sister Carrie | 第41-43页 |
| 3.2.2 Predominant Features of the Text | 第43-46页 |
| 3.2.3 The Reader's levels in the Second Creation of Sister Carrie | 第46-51页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ. THE CORRECT READING OF SISTER CARRIE | 第51-62页 |
| 4.1 The Right Cognition of the Misreading | 第51-54页 |
| 4.2 The Necessity of Repetitive Reading of Sister Carrie | 第54-56页 |
| 4.3 The Reading Experience of Sister Carrie | 第56-62页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ. CONCLUSIONS | 第62-64页 |
| Works Cited | 第64-67页 |
