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
Chapter Four The Body as a Political Problematic
I．The politicization ofthe body
II．Political victims in the real world：Becke~’S politicized
theater
Ⅲ．The victimized body：punishment through torture
IV．The victimized body：heteronomy，interrogation，
torture．and surveillance
V．The body as the lack
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix：List of Beckett’S Major Dramatic Works
