| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-23页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Doris Lessing | 第12-15页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第15-22页 |
| ·Auto/biography | 第15-18页 |
| ·Lessing and Her Works | 第18-22页 |
| ·Aims of the Thesis | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第23-33页 |
| ·Autobiography and the Development of Metafiction | 第23-27页 |
| ·Autobiographical and Historiographic Metafiction | 第27-30页 |
| ·Under My Skin as a Text of Historiographic Metafiction | 第30-31页 |
| ·Inference | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Three Under My Skin as a Metafictional and Historiographical Text | 第33-50页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Under My Skin | 第33-34页 |
| ·An Analysis of the Metafictional Features of Under My Skin | 第34-43页 |
| ·The Exposure of Narrative Artifice | 第34-39页 |
| ·Fictionality or Reality | 第39-43页 |
| ·An Analysis of the Return to History | 第43-48页 |
| ·Under My Skin as a Text of Historiographic Metafiction | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four The Narrative Characteristics of Under My Skin | 第50-60页 |
| ·Shift of Narrative | 第50-54页 |
| ·An Overtly Controlling Narrator. | 第51页 |
| ·First and Third Person Narrative | 第51-53页 |
| ·Outsider and Insider Narrative | 第53-54页 |
| ·Non-chronological Narrative | 第54-56页 |
| ·Intertextality and Intratextuality | 第56-60页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第60-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-66页 |
