| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-20页 |
| 1.1 The Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul and His Literary Achievements | 第8-10页 |
| 1.2 A Brief Introduction to A Way in the World | 第10-12页 |
| 1.3 Literature Review | 第12-18页 |
| 1.4 Thesis Statement, Significance and Framework | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Basis | 第20-26页 |
| 2.1 Introduction to New Historicism | 第20-22页 |
| 2.2 Major Representatives | 第22-24页 |
| 2.3 Basic Theory and Main Principles | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three Naipaul's Perception and Interpretation of History in Terms ofNew Historicism | 第26-44页 |
| 3.1 The Challenge to Official "History" | 第26-33页 |
| 3.1.1 Cruelty and Humiliation of Trinidad's History in Colonial Era | 第26-30页 |
| 3.1.2 Irony in Writing of Raleigh's Colonial Expedition | 第30-33页 |
| 3.2 The Reconstruction of the Colonized "histories" | 第33-40页 |
| 3.2.1 Fictional Rewriting of the Revolutionary Oilfield Strike | 第33-37页 |
| 3.2.2 Historical Imagination of a Political Dreamer | 第37-40页 |
| 3.3 Naipaul's Conception of History Displayed in the Narrative Features of the Novel | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Four The Self-knowledge under the Cultural and Historical Context | 第44-55页 |
| 4.1 The Constructed Self of the Individual in A Way in the World | 第44-52页 |
| 4.1.1 Leonard:A Stranger to Himself and Memory | 第45-47页 |
| 4.1.2 Sorzano:A New Man in His Way in the World | 第47-49页 |
| 4.1.3 Phyllis:Re-positioning of the Female Self-identity | 第49-52页 |
| 4.2 Naipaul's Self-fashioning as a Global Writer through His Act of Writing | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第55-58页 |
| Works Cited | 第58-62页 |
| 攻读学位期间的研究成果 | 第62页 |
