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。

外教社博学文库：塞缪尔 贝克特：见证身体之在_刘爱英_上海外语教育出版社_

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