Reading with Peter Brooks (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399538374)

For many decades Peter Brooks's critical writing has been a force of illumination and inspiration for readers of many kinds, with memorable books that continue to generate new thinking. Reading for the Plot was perhaps the best known of these until Brooks published Seduced by Story (2022), a provocative calling out of the now ubiquitous cultural stress on 'stories' of all and any kind.

The mini-essays in this volume build on the diverse strands of Brooks's work in their own ways, to demonstrate -and celebrate--its significance for critical thinking across a range of different disciplinary fields and institutional settings: in literary history and narrative theory; in psychoanalytic and legal studies; through interdisciplinary initiatives at Yale. There are also two longer essays by Peter Brooks himself, including one on his experience of prison teaching.

Author: Rachel Bowlby
ISBN-10: 1399538373
ISBN-13: 9781399538374
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2024
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d