| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-24页 |
| 1.1 Ian Mc Ewan and Sweet Tooth | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review on Sweet Tooth | 第14-22页 |
| 1.3 Thesis Statement and Research Questions | 第22-24页 |
| CHAPTER TWO METAFICTION AS A NARRATIVE GAME | 第24-30页 |
| 2.1 What Is Metafiction | 第24-26页 |
| 2.2 Narrative Strategies of Metafiction | 第26-30页 |
| CHAPTER THREE EMBEDDED NARRATIVE AS A GAME | 第30-42页 |
| 3.1 Frame Narrative and Embedded Narrative | 第31-38页 |
| 3.1.1 Frame Narrative: Tom as the Implied Author | 第32-33页 |
| 3.1.2 Embedded Narrative: Serena as the Narrator | 第33-35页 |
| 3.1.3 Relations of Structural Degrees | 第35-38页 |
| 3.2 Three Levels of Stories in Sweet Tooth | 第38-42页 |
| 3.2.1 The Narration of Serena | 第38-39页 |
| 3.2.2 Sweet Tooth by Tom | 第39-40页 |
| 3.2.3 Sweet Tooth by Ian Mc Ewan | 第40-42页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR INTERTEXTUALITY AS A GAME | 第42-56页 |
| 4.1 Intertextual Parallelism with Literary Figures and Works | 第43-48页 |
| 4.2 Intertextual Parody of Genres | 第48-56页 |
| 4.2.1 The Autobiography | 第48-50页 |
| 4.2.2 The Spy Novel | 第50-53页 |
| 4.2.3 Realistic Literature | 第53-56页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE INTERPRETATION OF SWEET TOOTH AS A GAME | 第56-66页 |
| 5.1 Blurred Boundary between Fiction and Reality | 第56-58页 |
| 5.2 New Roles of Readers and Authors in Sweet Tooth | 第58-66页 |
| 5.2.1 The Participation of Readers | 第58-60页 |
| 5.2.2 The Authorial Intrusion | 第60-61页 |
| 5.2.3 The Cooperation of Readers and Authors | 第61-66页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第66-70页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第70-74页 |
