本书从认识论、本体论和政治话语的角度解读朱利安·巴恩斯小说中的后现代历史书写。通过细读《福楼拜的鹦鹉》《101/2章世界史》《豪猪》《英格兰，英格兰》《亚瑟与乔治》等小说，结合解构主义和新历史主义的阅读策略，依据后现代历史哲学话语和新历史主义相关论述，探讨巴恩斯如何通过互文、解构、戏仿等写作策略直接或间接地展现他的后现代历史观或历史哲学，指出巴恩斯是一位用文学创作处理历史论题、具有比较自觉的历史（学）关切的后现代作家。本书具有跨学科研究的特点，是国内第一本比较系统地探讨朱利安·巴恩斯小说中的后现代历史书写的研究专著，填补了国内朱利安·巴恩斯小说研究的空白。

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Ⅰ.Barnes's Literary Career and Achievements
Ⅱ.Barnes Studies at Home and Abroad
Ⅲ.Framework of This Research
Chapter One Historical Discourse,Historical Writing and Julian Barnes
Ⅰ.Transformation of Historical Discourse
ⅰ.Traditional Historical Discourse
ⅱ.Postmodern Historical Discourse and New Historicism
Ⅱ.Historical Writing in British Fiction
ⅰ.Traditional Historical Novel
ⅱ.New Historical Fiction or Historiographic Metafiction
Ⅲ.Historical Writing in Julian Barnes's Fiction
ⅰ.History as Background:Traditional(Historical) Novel
ⅱ.History Foregrounded:Postmodern Historical Writing
Chapter Two Questioning and Questing for Historical Truth
Ⅰ.Textuality of History
ⅰ."How Do We Seize the Past?"
ⅱ."Turn Catastrophe into Art"
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