Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative

by Peter Brooks

Book Overview

The desire to know the body is a powerful dynamic of storytelling in all its forms. Peter Brooks argues that modern narrative is intent on uncovering the body in order to expose a truth that must be written in the flesh. In a book that ranges widely through literature and painting, Brooks shows how the imagination strives to bring the body into language and to write stories on the body. From Rousseau, Balzac, Mary Shelley, and Flaubert, to George...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674077253
• ISBN13: 9780674077256
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"