Body work : objects of desire in modern narrative /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brooks, Peter, 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Human body in literature.
Sex in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Human figure in art.
Human beings in art.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Narration.
Littérature > Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans l'art.
Corps humain dans l'art > Technique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Human body in literature
Human figure in art
Literature, Modern
Sex in literature
Vertelkunst.
Literaire thema's.
Menselijk lichaam.
Literature > Special subjects > Sexuality
Arts > Special subjects > Sexuality
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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