| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-26页 |
| 1.1 Literature Review | 第11-18页 |
| 1.1.1 Literature Review of Beckett’s Later Theater | 第12-15页 |
| 1.1.2 Literature Review of the Three Plays | 第15-18页 |
| 1.2 Drama and Transgeneric and Transmedial Narratology | 第18-24页 |
| 1.2.1 Drama as a Narrative Genre | 第18-20页 |
| 1.2.2 The Definition of Metalepsis | 第20-23页 |
| 1.2.3 The Functions of Metalepsis | 第23-24页 |
| 1.3 Research Questions, Thesis Statement and the Significance of Research | 第24-26页 |
| CHAPTER TWO A PIECE OF MONOLOGUE: BIRTH AND DEATH | 第26-38页 |
| 2.1 The Stage Storyworld | 第26-29页 |
| 2.2 The Vocal Sub-storyworld and the Imaginative Sub-sub-storyworld | 第29-33页 |
| 2.3 Birth and Death: The Two Matters | 第33-37页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第37-38页 |
| CHAPTER THREE ROCKABY: QUEST FOR HER OWN OTHER AND ITSFAILURE | 第38-50页 |
| 3.1 The Stage Storyworld: a Sensory Torture and Its Rescue | 第38-42页 |
| 3.2 The Vocal Sub-storyworld: a Lullaby Telling the Downfall of a Woman | 第42-49页 |
| 3.3 Summary | 第49-50页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR OHIO IMPROMPTU: SEPARATION AND REUNION | 第50-62页 |
| 4.1 The Sub-storyworld in Written Text: Isolation and Storytelling | 第51-56页 |
| 4.2 The Stage Storyworld: Reading and Reception | 第56-60页 |
| 4.3 Summary | 第60-62页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第62-66页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第66-70页 |
| 在校期间发表论文清单 | 第70页 |
