| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-23页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第13-20页 |
| O.2 What is metafiction | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter One The Application of Chinese Box Structure in Atonement | 第23-43页 |
| ·Embedded Narrative and Frame Narrative | 第25-34页 |
| ·Embedded Narrative:Briony as the Character | 第27-30页 |
| ·Frame Narrative:Briony as the Implied Narrator | 第30-34页 |
| ·Three Levels of Stories in Atonement | 第34-43页 |
| ·Two Figures by the Fountain by Briony | 第34-36页 |
| ·Atonement by Briony | 第36-39页 |
| ·Atonement by Ian McEwan | 第39-43页 |
| Chapter Two The Employment of Intertextuality in Atonement | 第43-65页 |
| ·Intertextual Parallelism with Preceding Literary Characters | 第45-54页 |
| ·Briony Tallis and Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey | 第45-50页 |
| ·Briony and Leo Colston in The Go--Between | 第50-54页 |
| ·Intertextual Parody on Modernist Writing Style | 第54-65页 |
| ·Henry Jamesian style | 第55-59页 |
| ·Virginia Woolfian Style | 第59-65页 |
| Chapter 3 The Philosophical Interpretation of Atonement as Metafiction | 第65-75页 |
| ·The Manifestation of Ian McEwan's Humanistic Concern | 第65-69页 |
| ·The Reflection of Ian McEwan's Skepticism to Truth and Language | 第69-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-85页 |
| Appendix | 第85-87页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第87-89页 |
