The (over)exposed body: Harry Crews's Body.(Critical Essay) From: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Want, Stephen | COPYRIGHT 2001 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body.--Franz Kafka, In The Penal Settlement (1919)

Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body? For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.

--Walt Whitman, I Sing The Body Electric (1867)

This exploration of Harry Crews's novel Body outlines the ways in which the book gives an idiosyncratic slant to many of t...