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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...
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Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.
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Description
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.
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ISBN: 9781399538381
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Contributors:
- Edited by Rachel Bowlby
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. Most recently, she is the author of Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024) and mile Zola: Writing Modern Life (2025).
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