| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-19页 |
| ·Austin Clarke:Life and Literary Achievements | 第11-14页 |
| ·The Polished Hoe:An Epitome of the Colonized Barbados | 第14-16页 |
| ·Thesis Statement and Thesis Structure | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第19-23页 |
| ·Studies on Hoe abroad | 第19-22页 |
| ·Domestic Studies on Hoe | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter Two Body Criticism, Embodied Cognition and Metaphorical Concept | 第23-39页 |
| ·Body and Its Root in Philosophy | 第23-32页 |
| ·Body History in Philosophy | 第25-29页 |
| ·Body as an Enemy of Spiritual Perfection in Western Pre-modern Philosophy | 第26-27页 |
| ·Body as Subject plus Object:Modern and Post-modern Body Philosophies | 第27-29页 |
| ·Postmodern Body:Body Philosophy after Merleau-Ponty | 第29-32页 |
| ·Body as "a perceiving thing":Merleau-Ponty's Bodily Phenomenology | 第29-31页 |
| ·Body as a Tool for Criticism in Postmodern Philosophies of Body | 第31-32页 |
| ·Embodiment and Embodied cognition:a Cognitive Perspective for Body Criticism | 第32-37页 |
| ·What Is Embodiment? | 第32-35页 |
| ·Metaphorical Concept/Conceptual Metaphor | 第35-37页 |
| ·Read Hoe as a Practice of Body Criticism—Body Consciousness, Somaesthetics and the Feasibility of the Body Criticism on Hoe | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three The Metaphorical Concept of Bodies in Hoe and Their LiteraryInterpretations | 第39-76页 |
| ·Categories of Body in the Novel | 第40-42页 |
| ·A further Study on the Metaphors of Bodies Classified on the Basis of the "Figure/ground" Theory | 第42-68页 |
| ·Bo dies as "Figure" | 第42-59页 |
| ·Metaphors of Body and Its Literary Implications | 第43-56页 |
| ·Other Bodies in "Figure" | 第56-59页 |
| ·Bodies as "Ground" | 第59-68页 |
| ·The Beastly and Castrated Body of Mr. Bellfeels | 第59-63页 |
| ·Tragedies of Three Openly Punished Bodies | 第63-67页 |
| ·The Three Secretly Executed Bodies in the Underground Tunnel | 第67-68页 |
| ·Other Bodies in "Ground" | 第68页 |
| ·Metaphorized Bodies | 第68-74页 |
| ·The Metaphorized Bodies in the Narrative Logic | 第69-72页 |
| ·Other Metaphorized Bodies | 第72-74页 |
| ·A Summary of the Bodiliness of Hoe | 第74-76页 |
| Conclusion | 第76-80页 |
| Notes | 第80-81页 |
| Works Cited | 第81-86页 |
