| English Abstract | 第4页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-15页 |
| 1 A Brief Introduction to the Author | 第7-8页 |
| 2 A Brief Introduction to the Novel | 第8-9页 |
| 3 Literature Review | 第9-15页 |
| Chapter One The Features of the Narrators and the Points of View in Man in the Dark | 第15-26页 |
| 1.1 The Multi-level Narrators | 第15-21页 |
| 1.1.1 August Brill as the Intradiegetic Narrator | 第16-17页 |
| 1.1.2 August Brill as the Extradiegetic Narrator | 第17-19页 |
| 1.1.3 Other Metadiegetic Narrators | 第19-21页 |
| 1.2 The Features of the Point of View in Man in the Dark | 第21-26页 |
| 1.2.1 The Definition and Classification of the Point of View | 第21-22页 |
| 1.2.2 The Shift and Fusion of Different Points of View | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter Two Other Narrative Features in Man in the Dark | 第26-40页 |
| 2.1 The Narrative Strategy of Metafiction | 第26-32页 |
| 2.1.1 Revealing the Process of Creating a Novel | 第27-29页 |
| 2.1.2 Blurring the Boundary Between the Fictionality and the Reality | 第29-32页 |
| 2.2 The Non-Linear Narrative Strategy | 第32-35页 |
| 2.3 The Embedded Structure | 第35-40页 |
| Chapter Three The Literary Effects by Its Narrative Features | 第40-46页 |
| 3.1 The Alternative Histories | 第40-42页 |
| 3.2 A New Type of Anti-War Fiction | 第42-46页 |
| Conclusion | 第46-48页 |
| Bibliography | 第48-51页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第51页 |
