塞缪尔·贝克特

Introduction

Chapter One The Body as a Philosophical Problematic

I. The mind-body split

II. The despised body

III. Beckett's caricature: the degrading representations

of the body

IV. The trope of onwardness

Chapter Two The Body as a Physiological Problematic

I. Birth astride of a grave: the tragic lot of all fleshy bodies

II. The visually shocking body

III. The physiologically worsening body

IV. The Beckettian body as an aesthetic body

Chapter Three The Body as a Social Problematic

I. The social construction of the body: a sociological perspective

II. The sexed and gendered body

III. The engendered body

IV. The socialized body

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论文从身体理论的视角，对贝克特戏剧作品中的身体进行了多维度、跨学科的考察，试图揭示剧作中肉体之在的哲学意义、身体的现象学意义、身体作为社会建构的产物所承载的社会和文化讯息、身体的政治化问题以及身体负载的政治和权力信息。