貝克特小說中的時間難題

Introduction

Chapter One: Beckett and the Time Aporias
　1.1 Proust : Beckett’’s conception of the time aporias
　1.2 The ”Real” Proust and Beckett’’s Proust
　1.3 Introduction of Schopenhauer and Bergson to Proust

Chapter Two: Murphy: Reinstatement of the Time Aporias
　2.1 The Shadow of Marcel: the little world
　2.2 The Time Cancer: the big world
　　2.2.1 Rule of Habit and Voluntary Memory
　　2.2.2 The Unidirectional Contrived Love in the big world
　2.3 Impossible Reconciliation Between the two Worlds
　　2.3.1 The Possibility of Dichotomy
　　2.3.2 Attempts at Reconciliation in the Novel
　　2.3.3 The Futile Quest for the Involuntary Time
　2.4 Narrative Time Structure of Murphy
　　2.4.1 The Holistic Narrative time: Narrative Determinism
　 2.4.2 The Mixed-up Narrative as a Result of Different Time Experience

Chapter Three: Watt : Time in its Pure Form
　3.1 The Working Mechanism of a Clock
　　3.1.1 The Two Servants as Two Clock Hands
　　3.1.2 The Fable of Clock Time in Knott’’s House
　　3.1.3 The Reduction of Time to Figures
　　3.1.4 Music and the Clock Time. Pure Form of Music
　3.2 The Clock out of Order
　　3.2.1 Mr. Knott: The Absent Central Point of the Clock
　　3.2.2 The Missing Substratum: the Persistent ”Now”
　　3.2.3 The Anti-music Feature of Music in the Novel
　3.3 The Clockwise Narrative Time
　　3.3.1 The Reshaped Circle of a Clock
　　3.3.2 Breakdown of the Narrative Time: No Configuration or Refiguration
　　3.3.3 Threefold Narrative Structure: The Unauthentic Narrator

Chapter Four: Molloy: the Quest for the Origin of Time
　4.1 The Origin of Time
　　4.1.1 Mother of all Mankind: the Goddess of Time
　　4.1.2 The Quest for the Goddess of Time
　　4.1.3 The Paradox of Life and Death in the Goddess of Time
　4.2 The fake Goddess in Lousse’’s house
　　4.2.1 The ”Goddess” Lousse
　　4.2.2 A Replica of Knott’’s house
　　4.2.3 Love in the Lousse’’s House
　4.3 Two Corresponding Failures: Molloy and Moran
　　4.3.1 The son as the body: Unborn or Rebirth?
　　4.3.2 Moran’’s Metamorphosis. to be Like Molloy
　4.4 Immemorial Expatiation: Back to the Narrative Past
　　4.4.1 Narrative Time Of Moran’’s Narrative Part: Change in Narrative Experience
　　4.4.2 Anti-narrative Time in Molloy’’s Narrative Part. the Mythological Present

Chapter Five: Malone Dies: to Understand Time in Death
　5.1 Being-towards-Death
　　5.1.1 Death and Time. to Synchronize Time in Death
　　5.1.2 The Dying Malone
　5.2 Death and the Other
　　5.2.1 Death as the Other to Time
　　5.2.2 The Death of the Other
　　5.2.3 The Death of the Other and My Own
　5.3 To die for the Other
　　5.3.1 God as the Other
　　5.3.2 The Ethical Responsibilities.. Patience and the Guilt of Survival
　5.4 Tension between Narrative Impatience and Narrative Patience
　　5.4.1 Diachrony: the Parallel Structure of the One and the Other
　　5.4.2 Narrative Patience vs. Narrative Impatience

Chapter Six. The Unnamable： Time as ”the Between”
　6.1 Between Mahood and Worm
　　6.1.1 Time Experience of Mahood
　　6.1.2 Time Experience of Worm the Anti- Mahood
　　6.1.3 The Unnamable Between Mahood and Worm
　6.2 Time as ”the Between”
　　6.2.1 The Relationship as ”the Between” ~
　　6.2.2 Aporia as ”the Between”: Questioning Awaiting no Answer
　6.3 The Narrative in ”the Between”
　　6.3.1 The Interior Monologue of the Voice: Solitary Narrating
　　6.3.2 Narrating Leading Nowhere

Conclusion
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