Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One Construction of a Fictional World
1.Linearity vs.Circularity
2.Whirlpool vs.Fountain
Chapter Two Wholeness of Man
1.Androgyny
2.Everyone Figure
Chapter Three Time in a Flux
1.Present, Past and Future
2.True Self in la Duree
Chapter Four Metaphorical World
1.Intertextuality
2.Symbolism
Chapter Five Sufic Transcendence
1.Sufism, Sufi and the Forms of the Novels
2.Sufi Teaching Stories and Dreams
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix Ⅰ List of Doris Lessing's books by year
Appendix Ⅱ Chronology of major events in Doris Lessing's life
Appendix Ⅲ My papers on Doris Lessing published in Chinese