| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract(in English) | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract(in Chinese) | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Vladimir Nabokov and Lolita | 第11-22页 |
| ·Nabokov's Life and Works | 第11-13页 |
| ·Nabokov's Concepts of Reality and Art of Fiction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Lolita:An Embodiment of Nabokov's View on Pure Art | 第17-19页 |
| ·Critical Reception of Lolita | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter Two Lolita and the Tradition of Detective Fiction | 第22-30页 |
| ·The Formulaic Writing Mode of Detective Fiction | 第22-24页 |
| ·Lolita in the Form of Detective Fiction | 第24-30页 |
| Chapter Three A Metaphysical Detective Story Following the Theme of Quest | 第30-41页 |
| ·Metaphysical Detective Story as a Genre | 第30-33页 |
| ·Lolita:the Missing Person Type | 第33-35页 |
| ·The Quest Theme | 第35-41页 |
| Chapter Four Strategies of Metaphysical Detective Story in Lolita | 第41-55页 |
| ·Parody | 第41-48页 |
| ·Parody of Literary Genres | 第42-44页 |
| ·Parody of Poe's Love Poem | 第44-45页 |
| ·Parody of Freudianism and Psychoanalysis | 第45-48页 |
| ·The Plot Construction | 第48-55页 |
| ·Story-Within-Story | 第49-51页 |
| ·Nonsolution | 第51-55页 |
| Chapter Five The Defeated Detection:Revelation of Fictionality of Fiction | 第55-67页 |
| ·The Defeated Detective | 第55-60页 |
| ·The Frustrated Reader | 第60-62页 |
| ·The Absence of Narrative Closure | 第62-67页 |
| Conclusion | 第67-68页 |
| Notes | 第68-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-73页 |
