| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-12页 |
| 摘要 | 第12-16页 |
| Introduction: A Survey of Nabokov Studies from the Perspective of Metafiction | 第16-42页 |
| Chapter One: The Awakening of the Self-consciousness of Nabokov's American Novels | 第42-85页 |
| Ⅰ. Cultural context and Nabokov's seIf-conscious writing | 第42-57页 |
| Ⅱ. Experimentation on form as demonstration of self-consciousness | 第57-63页 |
| Ⅲ. The influence of Shakespeare's play-within-a-play upon Nabokov's self-reflective narrative | 第63-75页 |
| Ⅳ. Reality: the root of the self-consciousness of Nabokov's American novels | 第75-85页 |
| Chapter Two: Fiction as Artistic Criticism:Nabokov's Romantic Complex as Revealed in His American Novels | 第85-119页 |
| Ⅰ. Theoretical background of "fiction as literary critique" | 第85-88页 |
| Ⅱ. A holistic analysis of literary criticism in Nabokov's American Hovels | 第88-96页 |
| Ⅲ. Nabokov's criticism on romantic literature | 第96-104页 |
| Ⅳ. Criticism on the literature of realism from a romanticist's view | 第104-109页 |
| Ⅴ. Nabokov's romantic view toward modern and contemporary literature | 第109-114页 |
| Ⅵ. Analytical study of the formation of Nabokov's romantic complex | 第114-119页 |
| Chapter Three: The Meaning of the Ludic Impulse | 第119-154页 |
| Ⅰ. Clarification on the misunderstanding of the ludic impulse and relative reviews of the issue in Nabokov studies | 第119-124页 |
| Ⅱ. The internal relationship between paronomasia and wordplay | 第124-141页 |
| Ⅲ. The effect of collage and the meaning created in the process of collaging | 第141-152页 |
| Ⅳ. The relationship between the ludic impulse and its meaning | 第152-154页 |
| Conclusion | 第154-160页 |
| Works Cited | 第160-166页 |
