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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