| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-31页 |
| Chapter One Intertextuality in The Comforters | 第31-62页 |
| I. An Overview of the Theory of Intertextuality | 第31-38页 |
| II. Relations between The Comforters and the Book of Job | 第38-49页 |
| III. Intertextual Reference to The End of the Affair | 第49-53页 |
| IV. Parody of the Detective Novel | 第53-62页 |
| Chapter Two The Art of the Nouveau Roman in The Driver’s Seat | 第62-87页 |
| I. The Nature of the Nouveau Roman and its Relation with Postmodernism | 第62-68页 |
| II The Impersonal Writings of the Fiction | 第68-77页 |
| III. The Rejection of the Sequential Plot | 第77-87页 |
| Chapter Three The Craft of Metafiction in Loitering with Intent | 第87-116页 |
| I. Some Issues of Metafiction | 第87-93页 |
| II. The Metafictional Structure of Loitering with Intent | 第93-102页 |
| III. The Exposure of Artificiality | 第102-106页 |
| IV. Discussion about the Criticism of Fiction | 第106-116页 |
| Conclusion | 第116-125页 |
| Bibliography | 第125-135页 |