Body Work: Objects Of Desire In Modern Narrative

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.

• Author
• Peter Brooks

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 325

• Publisher
• Harvard University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780674077256

• Release date
• 1993