Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring...
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Author: Peter Brooks
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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Brooks, Peter

Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Dhs. 94.58

Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Dhs. 94.58
Author: Peter Brooks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 work Reading 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 from The Girl on the Train to legal argument, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive.

Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 10/18/2022
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.67w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781681376639


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2022
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2022

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