| Acknowledgement | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-14页 |
| ChapterⅠDon Delillo the Postmodernist Writer | 第14-19页 |
| ·Don Delillo and His Major Works | 第14-15页 |
| ·Libra and Its Status in Research | 第15-19页 |
| ChapterⅡHistoriographic Metafiction | 第19-28页 |
| ·Comprehending Historiographic Metafiction | 第19-20页 |
| ·Specific Issues Regarding Historiographic Metafiction | 第20-26页 |
| ·The Postmodern Relation of History and Fiction | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Nature of Identity and Subjectivity | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Intertextual Nature of History | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Problematic of Language | 第24-26页 |
| ·Major Characteristics of Historiographic Metafiction | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter ⅢLibra as a Text of Historiographic Metafiction | 第28-55页 |
| ·The Credibility of Historiography in Question | 第28-37页 |
| ·The Problematizing of the Archives | 第29-33页 |
| ·The Problematizing of Historiography | 第33-37页 |
| ·The Problematic of Subjectivity | 第37-47页 |
| ·The Subject in History | 第37-43页 |
| ·The Subject Subject to History | 第43-47页 |
| ·The Challenge to Official History | 第47-55页 |
| ·Marguerite’s Version of the Figure Oswald | 第48-51页 |
| ·Delillo’s Version of the Assassination of Kennedy | 第51-55页 |
| Chapter ⅣThe Balance Between History and Fiction | 第55-61页 |
| ·Convincing Narrative Structures | 第55-58页 |
| ·Historical Likelihood | 第58-61页 |
| Conclusion | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-67页 |
| 攻读学位期间的研究成果 | 第67页 |
