| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Ian McEwan and His Major Works | 第10-12页 |
| ·Atonement: the Book | 第12-13页 |
| ·Literature Review on Atonement | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Two Author's Construction of the Response-Inviting Structure: the Content Repository and the Textual Strategy | 第16-25页 |
| ·The Content Repository in the text | 第18-20页 |
| ·Behaviors against Moral Rules | 第18-19页 |
| ·Behaviors against Norms of Law | 第19-20页 |
| ·Lola was Raped | 第19页 |
| ·Briony's perjury in Lola's attempted Rape | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Textual Strategy among the Whole Text | 第20-25页 |
| ·The Narrative Perspective in Briony and Robbie Turners | 第20-23页 |
| ·The Realistic Perspective | 第23页 |
| ·The Virtual Perspective | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Three Author's Construction of the Indeterminancy：the Implied Reader's Appeal | 第25-34页 |
| ·Briony's Perspective of Robbie Being Assailant | 第26-30页 |
| ·The Dispute at the Fountain | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Note Delivery | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Assault in the Library | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Attempted Rape in Lola: the Perpetrator | 第30-34页 |
| ·The Perpetrator in the Perspective of Cecilia | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Perpetrator in the Perspective of Mrs. Tallis and Others | 第31-33页 |
| ·The Real Perpetrator | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Four Reader's Reconstruction of Briony's Fictive World: the Interaction between the Implied Reader and the Actual Reader | 第34-44页 |
| ·Reader's Untangling of Two Novels: Atonement | 第34-37页 |
| ·Reader's Constitution: the Relationship between the Author's Novel and Briony's Novel | 第35页 |
| ·Reader's Constitution: the nature of Briony's Fictional Atonement | 第35-37页 |
| ·Reader's Understanding of How Briony Expiates Her Fault | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Practical Action to the Redemption | 第37-39页 |
| ·The Imaginary State of Consciousness to the Redemption | 第39-40页 |
| ·Reader's Discovery of Briony's Atonement: the Impossibility | 第40-44页 |
| ·Reader's Decoding of the Impossibility between Cecilia and Robbie | 第40-42页 |
| ·Reader's Decoding of the Impossibility of the Salvation | 第42-44页 |
| Conclusion | 第44-46页 |
| Bibliography | 第46-47页 |
