| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-19页 |
| ·John Fowles and his literary accomplishments | 第11-14页 |
| ·Previous studies on John Fowles and The French Lieutenant's Woman | 第14-17页 |
| ·Overall structure of the thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter One Metafiction and Bakhtin's Dialogism | 第19-29页 |
| ·Definition of metafiction | 第19-24页 |
| ·Introduction of Bakhtin's dialogism | 第24-29页 |
| Chapter Two Analysis of the Metafictional Factors in The French Lieutenant's Woman Based on Bakhtin's Dialogism | 第29-35页 |
| ·Dialogism between fiction and reality | 第29-32页 |
| ·Dialogism between novel and criticism | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter Three Dialogism between the Novelist, the Narrator, the Character and the Reader in The French Lieutenant's Woman | 第35-57页 |
| ·The dialogism between the novelist and the narrator | 第36-38页 |
| ·The dialogism between the novelist and the character | 第38-43页 |
| ·The dialogism between the major characters | 第43-47页 |
| ·The dialogism between the novelist and the reader | 第47-52页 |
| ·The dialogism between the narrator and the reader | 第52-57页 |
| Chapter Four Parallel between Sarah's Fiction-making and Alternative Endings of the Novel | 第57-62页 |
| ·Sarah's fiction-making within The French Lieutenant's Woman | 第57-59页 |
| ·Alternative endings of The French Lieutenant's Woman | 第59-62页 |
| Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| References | 第64-66页 |
