Acknowledgements 3-5 Abstract 5-6 中文摘要 7-9 Table of Contents 9-11 Introduction 11-19 0.1 John Fowles and his literary accomplishments 11-14 0.2 Previous studies on John Fowles and The French Lieutenant's Woman 14-17 0.3 Overall structure of the thesis 17-19 Chapter One Metafiction and Bakhtin's Dialogism 19-29 1.1 Definition of metafiction 19-24 1.2 Introduction of Bakhtin's dialogism 24-29 Chapter Two Analysis of the Metafictional Factors in The French Lieutenant's Woman Based on Bakhtin's Dialogism 29-35 2.1 Dialogism between fiction and reality 29-32 2.2 Dialogism between novel and criticism 32-35 Chapter Three Dialogism between the Novelist, the Narrator, the Character and the Reader in The French Lieutenant's Woman 35-57 3.1 The dialogism between the novelist and the narrator 36-38 3.2 The dialogism between the novelist and the character 38-43 3.3 The dialogism between the major characters 43-47 3.4 The dialogism between the novelist and the reader 47-52 3.5 The dialogism between the narrator and the reader 52-57 Chapter Four Parallel between Sarah's Fiction-making and Alternative Endings of the Novel 57-62 4.1 Sarah's fiction-making within The French Lieutenant's Woman 57-59 4.2 Alternative endings of The French Lieutenant's Woman 59-62 Conclusion 62-64 References 64-66 |
