●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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