《后现代文学视域中的历史叙事--格雷厄姆·斯威夫特小说研究》由王艳萍编著而成，以引言、正文和结束语三个部分组成。体现了格雷厄姆·斯威夫特小说表现出的历史认知危机，以及小说中融入的历史叙事和文学叙事的两种写作风格，理论解析原作者斯威夫特的文本化历史观。

A Note on Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One Questioning the Traditional Historical Narraftve：

Epistemological Uncertainty

 I.“What Really Happened?”：Faustian Pursuit of the Historical

Truth

ⅰ.Pursuing“the Whole Truth”in Shuttlecock

ⅱ.Pursuing“the Full Story”in EverAfter

 Ⅱ.Unreliable Narrators

ⅰ.Narrators in Self—Reflexivity

ⅱ.Narrators in“Mise-en-abyme”

 Ⅲ.Questioning Epistemological Certainty：Anti.Detective Fiction

ⅰ.Detective Fiction and Anti.Detective Fiction

ⅱ.Elusive Mystery：Epistemological Ques~in Detective Fiction.

ⅲ.Fact or Fiction：Epistemological Uncertainty in Anti—Detective Fiction

Chapter Two Deconstructing Grand Narrative and Narrating

“Simulated”History

 I.Deconstruction of Grand Narrative in Waterland

ⅰ.Language Dilemma：Deconstruction of Linguistic Representation

ⅱ.Causality Failure：Deconstruction of R~ional Development of History

ⅲ.“It Loops”：Deconruction of Linear Development of History

iV.“The End of History”：Deconstruction of Historical Teleologv

 Ⅱ.“Simulated”History in Out ofThis World

ⅰ.What Is“Simulation”？ 

ⅱ.“Counterfeit”History：Paradox of Photographic Representation

ⅲ.“Simulated”History in Photographs and Television

ⅳ.“Simulated”History in the Real World

Chapter Three Constructing Textualized History：MerOng

Historical Narrative and Literary Narrative

 I.History and Story

ⅰ.“Histoda.any kind of narrative：account，tale，story”

ⅱCrime Story and Historical Analysis

ⅲ.Fairy.taIes，Supe}rstitions and Rumors as History

 Ⅱ.Historiographic Metafiction

ⅰ.Hisloriographic Me}taficti。n versus Metaficti。n1

ⅱ“ Genuine Historicity”and“Textualized Historicity

 Ⅲ.Intertextualized History

ⅰ.Intenextual References to Faulkner's Works in Waterland

ⅱ.Echoes of Shakespeare’s Plays in EverAfter 

ⅲA Palimpsestic Refashioning of the“Journey”Theme in Last Orders

Chapter Four Returning to“History in Mind”：The Signmcance

0f Narratives134

 I.Historical Interpretation and Discursive Power in Shuttlecock136

ⅰ.Desire for Power：A Natural Human Need 

ⅱ.Discursive Empowerment via War Memoir

 II.Historical Interpretation and Self-Identification in Ever After

ⅰ.Ancestor's History Re-Constructed in B川’s Mind

ⅱ.Awakening Through an Ancestor's Journal：Self-Identification

 Ⅲ.Historical Narratives and Meaning—Making in Waterland

ⅰ.Narratives：The Way to Ward off“Nothingness” 

ⅱ.“Man the Animal Who Craves for Meaning”

 IV.Historical Narratives and Spiritual Sublimation in Last Orders

i. A Journey Between the Past and the Present 

ⅱ. A Journey of Spir~ual Sublimation

Conclusion

Works Cited

Acknowledgements