| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-19页 |
| 1. Introduction to William H. Gass | 第9-14页 |
| 2. Introduction to In the Heart of the Heart of the Country | 第14-15页 |
| 3. Literature Review | 第15-19页 |
| Chapter One Metafiction in the Age of Postmodernism | 第19-28页 |
| ·The Background of the Rise of Metafiction | 第19-24页 |
| ·The Definition of Metafiction | 第24-26页 |
| ·Features of Metafiction | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Two Fiction and Reality in Metafiction | 第28-34页 |
| ·Fictionality of Reality in the Metafictional Text | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Unreliability of language in In the Heart of the Heart of the Country | 第29-34页 |
| Chapter Three The Exposure of Artificiality of Fiction | 第34-39页 |
| ·The Artificiality of Fiction | 第34-35页 |
| ·Narrative Artifice in In the Heart of the Heart of the Country | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter Four The Relationship between the Author and the Reader inMetafiction | 第39-46页 |
| ·The Exploration of the Role of the Author and the Reader | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Role of the Author and the Reader in In the Heart of the Heart of the Country | 第41-46页 |
| ·The Struggle of the Author | 第41-43页 |
| ·The Call for the Reader’s Creative Participation | 第43-46页 |
| Conclusion | 第46-48页 |
| Works Cited | 第48-51页 |
