本站原创Abstract5-7
摘要7-9
1 Introduction9-13
1.1 A Brief Introduction of Toni Morrison9-10
1.2 A Brief Introduction of Toni Morrison's Beloved10-12
1.3 Arguments of the Present Thesis12-13
2 Literature Review13-20
2.1 Overview of Critical Responses to Beloved13-16
2.1.1 Critical Response to Beloved Abroad13-15
2.1.2 Critical Response to Beloved in China15-16
2.2 Myth and Archetypal Critici16-20
2.2.1 Jungian Myth and Archetypal Theories17-18
2.2.2 Northrop Frye's Myth and Archetypal Theories18-19
2.2.3 Apppcation of Myth and Archetypal Theory to Literature Critici19-20
3 Toni Morrison's Destructive and Reconstructive20-36
3.1 Greek Medea Myth and Euripides' Medea20-23
3.1.1 Greek Medea Myth20-21
3.1.2 Euripides' Medea21-23
3.2 African American Writers' Employment of Myth23-28
3.2.1 The Origin and Development of African American Writers，Employment of Myth23-26
3.2.2 Morrison's Employment of Myth and Her Preference over MedeaMyth26-28
3.3 Toni Morrison's Destruction of Medea Myth in Beloved28-30
3.4 Morrison's Reconstruction of Medea myth in Beloved30-32
3.5 Significance of Toni Morrison's Destruction and Reconstruction of Medea Myth32-36
3.5.1 Rediscover the History of Black People32-33
3.5.2 A Combination of Western Literary Tradition and African American Experience33-36
4 Conclusion36-38
Bibpography38-43
Acknowledgements43