| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第8-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-30页 |
| I. Beckett’s drama in the context of contemporary literary and cultural studies .. | 第12-16页 |
| II. The rise of the body discourse in Beckett studies | 第16-19页 |
| III. The body as a problematic | 第19-23页 |
| IV. Theories employed | 第23-29页 |
| V. Structure of the dissertation | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter One The Body as a Philosophical Problematic | 第30-58页 |
| I. The mind-body split | 第30-40页 |
| II.The despised body | 第40-47页 |
| III. Beckett’s caricature: the degrading representations of the body | 第47-51页 |
| IV. The trope of onwardness | 第51-58页 |
| Chapter Two The Body as a Physiological Problematic | 第58-87页 |
| I. Birth astride of a grave: the tragic lot of all fleshy bodies | 第59-63页 |
| II. The visually shocking body | 第63-72页 |
| III. The physiologically worsening body | 第72-81页 |
| IV. The Beckettian body as an aesthetic body | 第81-87页 |
| Chapter Three The Body as a Social Problematic | 第87-113页 |
| I. The social construction of the body–a sociological perspective | 第87-89页 |
| II. The sexed and gendered body | 第89-102页 |
| III. The engendered body | 第102-106页 |
| IV. The socialized body | 第106-113页 |
| Chapter Four The Body as a Political Problematic | 第113-153页 |
| I. The politicization of the body | 第113-117页 |
| II. Political victims in the real world: Beckett’s politicized theater | 第117-119页 |
| III.The victimized body—punishment through torture | 第119-130页 |
| IV. The victimized body—heteronomy, interrogation, torture, and surveillance | 第130-147页 |
| V. The body as the lack | 第147-153页 |
| Conclusion | 第153-166页 |
| I. Beckett as a commiserative interpreter of human plight | 第153-154页 |
| II. Beckett as an audacious artist in the modernist-postmodernist era | 第154-161页 |
| III. Beckett as a cultural critic: the body and its multiple layers of meaning | 第161-166页 |
| Notes | 第166-174页 |
| Works Cited | 第174-187页 |
| Bibliography | 第187-194页 |
| Appendix: List of Beckett’s Major Dramatic Works | 第194-195页 |
