17.39: Writing Bodies and Intimacy, with K.M. Szpara
Writing Excuses
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Is There a Difference Between Intimate Scenes and Violence?
i think a lot about fight scenes when it sort of comes to these kind of moments in books. What is a scene of intimacy versus a scene of violence functionally narrateve in the narrative, they often perform a similar thing. There's something that each person is trying to communicate to the other through the physical actions of their body. So there's a way in which i think of these functionally as performing the same thing in the narrative,. hopefully with different outcomes.
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