Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks

Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks

In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.

"There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it." So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks's reckoning with today's flourishing cult of story.

Forty years after publishing his seminal workReading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the "narrative turn" in contemporary criticism and philosophy, Brooks returns to question the unquestioning fashion in which story is now embraced as an excuse or explanation and the fact that every brand or politician comes equipped with one.

In a discussion that ranges fromThe Girl on the Trainto legal argument, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive.

Brooks, Peter: - Peter Brooks has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel, French and English. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot, Body Work, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling and The Emperor's Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University, he currently teaches at Princeton University.

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ISBN 13	9781681376639
ISBN 10	1681376636
Title	Seduced by Story
Author	Peter Brooks
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2022-10-18
Number of pages	176
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