| Abbreviations | 第4-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Abstracts | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第14-36页 |
| Chapter 1Messianic Disturbance: Confrontation and Redemption | 第36-82页 |
| 1. Blocking the "solitary free passage": The Zoo Story | 第38-52页 |
| 2. Uncovering the "blood under the bridge": Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 第52-68页 |
| 3. Facing Existential Mysteries: Tiny Alice | 第68-82页 |
| Chapter 2Apocalyptic Disturbance: Lamentations Over Disintegration | 第82-130页 |
| 1. Expelling Plague: A Delicate Balance | 第84-98页 |
| 2. Approaching extinction: Box-Mao-Box and All Over | 第98-113页 |
| 3. Evolving or devolving: Seascape and The Man Who Had Three Arms | 第113-130页 |
| Chapter 3Empathetic Disturbance: Transcending Good and Evil | 第130-174页 |
| 1. Absolution and Rebirth: Three Tall Women | 第131-145页 |
| 2. From Transgression to Recuperation: The Goat, or Who's Sylvia? | 第145-159页 |
| 3. From Chaos to Order: Occupant | 第159-174页 |
| Chapter 4Dramatic Disturbance: Disorientation and Provocation | 第174-204页 |
| 1. Prodding with a Vaudevillian Glee | 第175-185页 |
| 2. Montage and Collage | 第185-193页 |
| 3. Pungent and Dysfunctional Language | 第193-204页 |
| Conclusion | 第204-211页 |
| Works Cited | 第211-218页 |
