Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative

Peter Brooks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
May 1 1993
EAN: 9780674077256
ISBN: 0674077253
Synopsis: Uncovering the body in order to know it has been the quest of narrative since the 18th century. In this tour through art and literature - from Rousseau, Flaubert, and Manet at the origins of modernism to Duras and Mapplethorpe in our own time - Peter Brooks sees the dynamic of narrative as propelled by desire to expose truth that can be found inscribed in the flesh.