| Abstract in Chinese | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第8-18页 |
| 1.1 O’Neill and his Composition | 第8-9页 |
| 1.2 Studies on O’Neill’s Dramatic Aesthetics of Time and Space and Life-philosophy at Home and Abroad | 第9-14页 |
| 1.2.1 Overseas Studies | 第10-11页 |
| 1.2.2 Domestic Studies | 第11-14页 |
| 1.3 Bergsonian Duration | 第14-16页 |
| 1.4 Duration of Soul | 第16-18页 |
| 2 Real Time as Duration or as Spatialized Time | 第18-34页 |
| 2.1 Long Day’s Journey—Duration as the Real Time | 第18-23页 |
| 2.2 Yesterday Once More—Past, Present, Future as an Inseparable Unity | 第23-34页 |
| 2.2.1 Recollection of a Flash of Years | 第24-25页 |
| 2.2.2 Duration as Illusion | 第25-34页 |
| 3 To Believe in the Deep Self or to Succumb to the Superficial Self | 第34-53页 |
| 3.1 Existing as Masks Among Masks | 第34-48页 |
| 3.1.1 Children of the Sea | 第35-37页 |
| 3.1.2 The Emperor’s Dress | 第37-39页 |
| 3.1.3 God’s Chillun | 第39-41页 |
| 3.1.4 To be an Artist or Nothing | 第41-48页 |
| 3.2 Free as Misbegotten Souls | 第48-53页 |
| 4 To Dream in Duration or to Die in Reality | 第53-67页 |
| 4.1 To Dream for Survival | 第54-62页 |
| 4.1.1 To Conciliate Fate | 第54-55页 |
| 4.1.2 To Confront Fate | 第55-58页 |
| 4.1.3 To Renounce Fate | 第58-62页 |
| 4.2 To Die for Survival | 第62-67页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第67-70页 |
| References | 第70-73页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第73-74页 |
