| English Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·William Styron and Sophie's Choice | 第12-14页 |
| ·The Scholarly Context and the Research Question | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Organization of This Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Debates over History | 第17-25页 |
| ·History and the Past | 第17页 |
| ·Theoretical Debates on the Nature of History | 第17-21页 |
| ·The Diversity of Historical Traditions | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Postmodernist Challenge | 第19-21页 |
| ·The Empiricist Target | 第21页 |
| ·Problems of Presentations | 第21-25页 |
| ·History as a Window on,or Substitute for the Past? | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Role of Political Values | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Three Styron's Methods of Representing the Past in Sophie's Choice | 第25-44页 |
| ·Interweaving Narrative Time and Space | 第25-38页 |
| ·Juxtaposition of Auschwitz with Fictional Reality | 第25-28页 |
| ·Fictionalization of the Holocaust and Historization of Narration | 第28-34页 |
| ·The Significance of Interweaving Narrative Time and Space | 第34-38页 |
| ·Narrative Unreliability | 第38-44页 |
| ·First Person Narration | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Unreliable Narrators vs.a Comparatively Reliable One | 第41-42页 |
| ·The Importance of Narrative Unreliability | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第44-47页 |
| Works Cited | 第47-49页 |
| Publications of the Author | 第49-50页 |
| Personal Profiles | 第50-51页 |
| Letter of Commitment | 第51-52页 |
