声明
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABSTRACT
摘要
Contents
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Overview of Space and Spatial Criticism
1.2 E.M.Foster and A Passage to India
1.3 The Structure of the Thesis
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Researches Abroad
2.2 Researches at Home
Chapter Three The LIVING SPACE IN A PASSAGE TO INDIA
3.1 The Disharmony of Natural Landscape
3.1.1 The mysterious Marabar caves
3.1.2 The colour-changed Ganges
3.2 The Disparity of Human Landscape
3.2.1 Mr.Fielding’s living room and Aziz’s bungalow
3.2.2 The civil station and Indian residential quarters
3.2.3 The symbolic mosque and temple
Chapter Four The SOCIAL SPACE IN A PASSAGE TO INDIA
4.1 The Opposed Groups under Racialism
4.1.1 The English colonizers of the superior race
4.1.2 The colonized Indians of the inferior race
4.2 The Gender Group of Thoughts Confined
4.2.1 The patriarchal manipulated male
4.2.2 The feudal conventional female
4.2.3 The “womanized’’ India
Chapter Five The INDIVIDUAL SPACE IN A PASSAGE TO INDIA
5.1 The Weak Individual in Colonial Discourse
5.1.1 The self-contemptuous Aziz
5.1.2 Westernized Godbole and Das
5.1.3 Trouble-maker Lal and numb audience
5.2 The Rebellious Individual in Conflict of Contradictory
5.2.1 The national dignity defender Aziz
5.2.2 The backing-up Indian participants
Chapter Six CONCLUSION
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