Body Narrative in Western Modernist Literature

Abstract

In the canon of western modernist literature there are quite a lot of body narratives,in which four types of human body can be identified: the hurt body,the sick body,the body of prostitute,and the idealized female body.The narrative of human body not only inherits the tradition of western philosophy,religion and literature,but also effectively conveys modernist writers' cultural and political stances towards modern civilization.