| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-39页 |
| The Profile of John Banville | 第13-17页 |
| International Study of John Banville | 第17-31页 |
| Translation of John Banville’s Works and Banville’s Research at Home | 第31-35页 |
| Academic Contribution | 第35-36页 |
| Research Methodology | 第36页 |
| Framework of the Dissertation | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter 1 The Book of Evidence: A Fake Confession | 第39-73页 |
| ·A Confession Deconstructed by Metafictional Elements and Uncertainty of Language | 第41-50页 |
| ·Not a Confession but an Imaginative Story of a Psychiatric Patient | 第50-55页 |
| ·A Confession of Amorality | 第55-65页 |
| ·The Redemption via Companion Volumes | 第65-73页 |
| ·Ghosts: The Acceptance of Otherness | 第66-68页 |
| ·Athena: The Ability to Make a Character Alive | 第68-73页 |
| Chapter 2 The Untouchable: ASpy’s Confession in the Mode of Excuse | 第73-109页 |
| ·A Confession in the Mode of Excuse as a Historiographic Metafiction | 第73-80页 |
| ·A Confession without Self-Restoration | 第80-96页 |
| ·Irishness VS Englishness | 第82-85页 |
| ·Marxist VS Royalist | 第85-89页 |
| ·Heterosexual VS Homosexual | 第89-91页 |
| ·No Way Out of the Endless Confession | 第91-96页 |
| ·The Functional Confessor and No way to Redeem | 第96-101页 |
| ·The Aestheticizing of Confessional Object and Confessional Language | 第101-109页 |
| Chapter 3 Shroud: Double-Structure Confessions | 第109-143页 |
| ·The Double-Confession Structure | 第109-119页 |
| ·The Confession of the Love towards Cass | 第110-113页 |
| ·The Confession to the Theft of Identity | 第113-119页 |
| ·The Absence and Presence of Two Confessors | 第119-129页 |
| ·The Absent Confessor Cass Cleave | 第119-127页 |
| ·The Present Confessor Doctor Zoroaster | 第127-129页 |
| ·The Complicated Problems of Absolution and Redemption caused by Heterogeneous Nature of the Sins, the Structure and Absence/Presence | 第129-137页 |
| ·The Mysterious Third-Person Narrator | 第137-143页 |
| Conclusion | 第143-146页 |
| Works Cited | 第146-152页 |
| AppendixI The Works of John Banville (From Wikipedia) | 第152-153页 |
| AppendixII The Prizes won by John Banville (From Wikipedia) | 第153-154页 |
| AppendixIII 已翻译的约翰 班维尔小说 | 第154-155页 |
