Body Work Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative

Name: Body Work Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
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ISBN: 9780674077256

ISBN-10: 0674077253

ISBN-13: 9780674077256

Edition: 1993

Authors: Peter Brooks

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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 Eliot, Zola, Henry James, and Marguerite Duras, from Manet and Gauguin to Mapplethorpe, writers and artists have returned in fascination to the body, the inescapable other of the spirit. Brooks's deep understanding of psychoanalysis informs his…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Narrative and the Body


Invasions of Privacy: The Body in the Novel


Marking Out the Modern Body: The French Revolution and Balzac


The Body in the Field of Vision


Nana at Last Unveil'd? Problems of the Modern Nude


Gauguin's Tahitian Body


What Is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein)


Talking Bodies, Delicate Vessels


Transgressive Bodies


Notes


Index