| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction: a Review of the Application of Binary Opposition to Literary Criticism | 第8-15页 |
| ·Saussure’s Linguistic Concepts | 第8-9页 |
| ·Russian Formalism and the Prague School: Extending Saussure | 第9-10页 |
| ·New Criticism: Poem—a Bundle of Harmonized Tensions | 第10页 |
| ·Structuralism: Meaning in the Binary Oppositions of a Text | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Binary Opposition in Characterization | 第15-32页 |
| ·Introduction | 第15-16页 |
| ·Contrasts between Characters | 第16-19页 |
| ·Contrasts within Individual Characters | 第19-32页 |
| ·Iago: Seeming and Being | 第19-25页 |
| ·Othello: Passionate or Rational? Intelligent or Stupid? | 第25-32页 |
| Chapter 3 Binary Opposition in Irony | 第32-38页 |
| Chapter 4 Silence and Voice | 第38-51页 |
| ·Silence and Voice in Marriage | 第38-43页 |
| ·Silence and Voice between Black and White | 第43-47页 |
| ·Silence and Voice in a False Friendship | 第47-51页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-55页 |
| Appendix | 第55-58页 |
