| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-19页 |
| A Note on Abbreviations | 第19-20页 |
| Introduction | 第20-35页 |
| Chapter One Questioning the Traditional Historical Narrative: Epistemological Uncertainty | 第35-65页 |
| Ⅰ. "What Really Happened?": Faustian Pursuit of the Historical Truth | 第36-44页 |
| ⅰ. Pursuing "the Whole Truth" in Shuttlecock | 第37-41页 |
| ⅱ. Pursuing "the Full Story" in Ever After | 第41-44页 |
| Ⅱ. Unreliable Narrators | 第44-53页 |
| ⅰ. Narrators in Self-reflexivity | 第45-49页 |
| ⅱ. Narrators in "Mise-en-abyme" | 第49-53页 |
| Ⅲ. Questioning Epistemological Certainty: Anti-Detective Fiction | 第53-65页 |
| ⅰ. Detective Fiction and Anti-Detective Fiction | 第54-57页 |
| ⅱ. Elusive Mystery: Epistemological Quests in Detective Fiction | 第57-59页 |
| ⅲ. Fact or Fiction: Epistemological Uncertainty in Anti-Detective Fiction | 第59-65页 |
| Chapter Two Deconstructing Grand Narrative and Narrating "Simulated" History | 第65-101页 |
| Ⅰ. Deconstruction of Grand Narrative in Waterland | 第66-81页 |
| ⅰ. Language Dilemma: Deconstruction of Linguistic Representation | 第67-71页 |
| ⅱ. Causality Failure: Deconstruction of Rational Development of History | 第71-74页 |
| ⅲ. "It Loops": Deconstruction of Linear Development of History | 第74-79页 |
| ⅳ. "The End of History": Deconstruction of Historical Teleology | 第79-81页 |
| Ⅱ. "Simulated" History in Out of This World | 第81-101页 |
| ⅰ. What Is " Simulation" | 第82-85页 |
| ⅱ. "Counterfeit" History: Paradox of Photographic Representation | 第85-90页 |
| ⅲ. "Simulated" History in Photographs and Television | 第90-95页 |
| ⅳ. "Simulated" History in the Real World | 第95-101页 |
| Chapter Three Constructing Textualized History:Merging Historical Narrative and Literary Narrative | 第101-133页 |
| Ⅰ. History and Story | 第102-113页 |
| ⅰ. "Historia, any kind of narrative:account, tale, story" | 第103-105页 |
| ⅱ. Crime Story and Historical Analysis | 第105-108页 |
| ⅲ. Fairy-tales, Superstitions and Rumors as History | 第108-113页 |
| Ⅱ. Historiographic Metafiction | 第113-121页 |
| ⅰ. Historiographic Metafiction versus Metafiction | 第114-118页 |
| ⅱ. "Genuine Historicity" and "Textualized Historicity" | 第118-121页 |
| Ⅲ. Intertextualized History | 第121-133页 |
| ⅰ. Intertextual References to Faulkner's Works in Waterland | 第122-125页 |
| ⅱ. Echoes of Shakespeare's Plays in Ever After | 第125-128页 |
| ⅲ. A Palimpsestic Refashioning of the "Journey" Theme in Last Orders | 第128-133页 |
| Chapter Four Returning to "History in Mind":the Significance of Narratives | 第133-164页 |
| Ⅰ. Historical Interpretation and Discursive Power in Shuttlecock | 第135-141页 |
| ⅰ. Desire for Power:A Natural Human Need | 第135-138页 |
| ⅱ. Discursive Empowerment via War Memoir | 第138-141页 |
| Ⅱ. Historical Interpretation and Self-identification in Ever After | 第141-148页 |
| ⅰ. Ancestor's History Re-constructed in Bill's Mind | 第142-144页 |
| ⅱ. Awakening through an Ancestor's Journal:Self-identification | 第144-148页 |
| Ⅲ. Historical Narratives and Meaning-Making in Waterland | 第148-155页 |
| ⅰ. Narratives:the Way to Ward off "Nothingness" | 第148-152页 |
| ⅱ. "Man the Animal Who Craves for Meaning" | 第152-155页 |
| Ⅳ. Historical Narratives and Spiritual Sublimation in Last Orders | 第155-164页 |
| ⅰ.A Journey between the Past and the Present | 第155-158页 |
| ⅱ.A Journey of Spiritual Sublimation | 第158-164页 |
| Conclusion | 第164-170页 |
| Works Cited | 第170-179页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第179-180页 |
| 博士研究生期间主要科研成果 | 第180页 |
