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独创性声明和学位论文版权使用授权书
Introduction
Part Ⅰ. Canon
Chapter Ⅰ. Etymology
Chapter Ⅱ. Literature Canon and Classic
Part Ⅱ. Tolkien and his The Lord of the Rings
Chapter Ⅰ. Who is J.R.R. Tolkien
2.1.1 An Orphan
2.1.2 Scholar in War Time
2.1.3 The Storyteller
Chapter Ⅱ. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
2.2.1 An Invented World
2.2.2 Past and Present
2.2.3 A Digest of the Story
Part Ⅲ. Anatomy of The Lord of the Rings as a Novel
Chapter Ⅰ. Plot
3.1.1 Plot of Causality
3.1.2 The Scale-Shape Involvement
3.1.3 The Effect of the Cause
Chapter Ⅱ. Character
3.2.1 Characters in Binary Opposition
3.2.2 Frodo vs. Sam
Chapter Ⅲ. Style
3.3.1 Language of Story-telling
3.3.2 Language of Narrative
Chapter Ⅳ. Setting
3.4.1 Culture as Setting
3.4.2 Cultures
Chapter Ⅴ. Theme
3.5.1 Life
3.5.2 Death
3.5.3 Power
Chapter Ⅵ. A Novel with Romance's Quest
3.5.1 Novel referred as Romance
3.5.2 The Quest of Romance
Part Ⅳ. Canonization
Chapter Ⅰ. Power in Literature
4.1.1 Power in Letters
4.1.2 Resemble and Subvert
Chapter Ⅱ. Who decides
Bibliography
Acknowledgement
