宮玉波著的《追尋靈魂的伊甸園--凱特·肖邦作
品中覺醒女性形像研究(英文版)》從凱特·肖邦短篇
小說中覺醒的女性形像入手，重點研究了其長篇小說
《覺醒》中女主角艾德娜這一形像，並從社會、歷史
、女權主義、存在主義哲學、叔本華哲學等角度來探
討艾德娜的自殺。本書通過對人類生存狀態和人性中
所蘊含的復雜性的解讀，揭示了文學中的一個重大主
題——人類尋找身份或者說“我是誰”的主題。

Introduction
Chapter 1 Awakened Women to Be Epitomized in The Awakening
1.1 Women hungering for autonomous selfhood
1.2 Women awakened to marital complexity
1.3 Women initiated into libidinal mystery
Chapter 2 Edna's \"Avant-garde\" Awakening
2.1 Edna's epistemological struggle for selfhood
2.2 Edna's full awareness of and embrace of passion
2.3 Edna's awakening to the paradoxical nature of physical love
2.4 Edna's epiphany concerning nature's ruthless trick on women through motherhood and wifehood
2.5 Edna's recognition of her struggle as useless passion
Chapter 3 Edna's Solitary Perplexity
3.1 The Hamlet-like dilemma Edna confronts in choosing her role model
3.2 The traumatic bewilderment Edna experiences concerning physical love
3.3 The irreconcilable plight Edna faces between individuality and motherhood
3.4 The unattainable paradise Edna pursues
Chapter 4 Edna's Ambiguous Transcendence
4.1 An appropriate retribution -- a cursed transcendence
4.2 A choice of no choice -- a biological transcendence
4.3 A spiritual rebirth -- an affirmative transcendence
4.4 A tentative endeavor -- Schopenhauerian approach to Edna's drowning
Conclusion
Abbreviations & Notes
Bibliography