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Brooks, Peter, (1938-)

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Body work : = objects of desire in modern narrative /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Body work :/ Peter Brooks.
Reminder of title:	objects of desire in modern narrative /
Author:	Brooks, Peter,
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. :Harvard University Press, : 1993.,
Description:	xiv, 325 p. :ill. ;24 cm
Subject:	Human body in literature -
ISBN:	0674077253

Body work : = objects of desire in modern narrative /
Brooks, Peter,1938-

Body work :objects of desire in modern narrative /Peter Brooks. - Cambridge, Mass. :Harvard University Press,1993. - xiv, 325 p. :ill. ;24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318) and index

Narrative and the body --

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 demonstration of how the "epistemophilic urge" - the desire to know - guides fictional plots and our reading of them. The novel is so singularly powerful an art form because it plays on our deepest yearnings, including the desire to penetrate the most private of realms. The body that interests Brooks most is defined radically by its sexuality. It is the sexual body that furnishes the building blocks of symbolization, eventually of language itself - which then takes us away from the body. Yet mind and language need to recover the body, as an other realm that is primary to their very definition. In modern art and literature, the body as object of curiosity has been predominantly that of a woman. Brooks shows how and why the female body has become the field upon which the aspirations, anxieties, and contradictions of a whole society are played out. And he suggests how writers and artists have found in the woman's body the dynamic principle of their storytelling, its motor force

ISBN: 0674077253

LCCN: 92034163Subjects--Topical Terms:

3274609
Human body in literature
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

2020027
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PN56.B62 / .B76 1993

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.933538

Body work : = objects of desire in modern narrative /
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