声明
Acknowledgments
Abstract
摘要
Table of Contents
Introduction
0.1 A Brief Review of Vonnegut and Jailbird
0.2 Vonnegut’s Dresden Experience and Historical Complex
0.3 Literature Review of Jailbird
0.4 Structure of This Thesis
Chapter One Paradoxical History:Regress in Progress
1.1 Circular Narrative Structure
1.2 Analepsis
1.3 Montage
Chapter Two Fragmentary History:No Ultimate Truth but Many Truths
2.1 Multiplicity of Voices and Identity
2.2 Multi-level Narrative Structure
2.3 Fragmented Plot
Chapter Three Illusionary History:Pursuit of Truth
3.1 The Historicity of Literature
3.2 The Literariness of History
3.3 Jailbird as a Historiographic Metafiction
Conclusion
Works Cited