| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-19页 |
| 1.1 Julian Patrick Barnes: A "Near Historian" | 第9-11页 |
| 1.2 His Magnum Opus: The Sense of an Ending | 第11-13页 |
| 1.3 Literature Review | 第13-17页 |
| 1.4 Significance and Layout | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第19-26页 |
| 2.1 Theoretical Background | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2 The "history" in New Historicism | 第20-22页 |
| 2.2.1 From "History" to "histories" | 第20-21页 |
| 2.2.2 Dynamic Rather than Established | 第21页 |
| 2.2.3 An Occasional and Impromptu Representation | 第21-22页 |
| 2.3 The Development of New Historicism | 第22-25页 |
| 2.3.1 The Leading Voice | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3.2 The Poetics of Historical Interpretation | 第23-24页 |
| 2.3.3 The Textuality of History and the Historicity of Texts | 第24-25页 |
| 2.4 Self-fashioning through "Negotiation" | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Three Textuality of Barnes' History | 第26-44页 |
| 3.1 The Text as a Written History | 第26-28页 |
| 3.1.1 The Text as an Approach to the Past | 第26-27页 |
| 3.1.2 The Text as the Elucidation Medium | 第27-28页 |
| 3.2 The History of Tony Webster | 第28-32页 |
| 3.2.1 Failed Relationship with Veronica | 第29-30页 |
| 3.2.2 An Awkward Visit to the Fords | 第30-31页 |
| 3.2.3 A Letter for "Blessing" | 第31-32页 |
| 3.3 The Uncertainty of Tony Webster's Self-fashioning | 第32-39页 |
| 3.3.1 An Unexpected Letter from Mrs. Ford | 第33页 |
| 3.3.2 The Negotiated "Tonys" in "histories" | 第33-37页 |
| 3.3.3 Unreliability of Memory and Narration | 第37-39页 |
| 3.4 Barnes' Historical Narrative | 第39-44页 |
| 3.4.1 The Fiction of History | 第39-42页 |
| 3.4.2 The Discourse Power in Narrative | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter Four Barnes' Historicity of Texts | 第44-52页 |
| 4.1 The Text as a Historical Event | 第44-46页 |
| 4.1.1 Historical and Cultural Features of the Text | 第44-45页 |
| 4.1.2 The Text as a Constructor of History | 第45-46页 |
| 4.2 The Re-fashioning of Tony Webster | 第46-52页 |
| 4.2.1 Barnes' Manipulation of the Text | 第46-48页 |
| 4.2.2 The Fashioning Power of Memory | 第48-50页 |
| 4.2.3 A New Tony Webster: Remorse and Re-fashioning | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| References | 第54-57页 |
| 攻读学位期间科研成果 | 第57页 |
