| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-16页 |
| Chapter One Not for the Sake of Being Rom antic | 第16-36页 |
| ·Point of View: In the Appearance of Being Classic | 第17-21页 |
| ·Intertextuality: Recognized and Hidden Clues | 第21-29页 |
| ·Metafiction: A Trick Up to McEwan’s Sleeve | 第29-36页 |
| Chapter Two Fiction and History: from Polarity to Mixture | 第36-44页 |
| ·Truth V.S. Fiction in the History of Novels | 第36-40页 |
| ·Atonement: Welding the Personal and the Historical | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Three From Atonementto Arendt | 第44-52页 |
| ·Two Disguised Culprits: Briony and Mrs. Tallis | 第45-49页 |
| ·Atonement and Arendt’s the Banality of Evil and Thoughtlessness | 第49-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-59页 |
