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Reading with Peter Brooks

Bowlby Rachel
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781399538374
Publisert
2024-11-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

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Bowlby Rachel

Om bidragsyterne

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 Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life (2025).

Reading with Peter Brooks

Bowlby Rachel
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Bowlby Rachel
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These lively, brief but extremely efficient essays by a host of distinguished contributors highlight the range and impact over the years of Peter Brooks's scholarship in the overlapping areas of narrative studies, psychoanalysis and law. Every reader will find something of interest here.

- Jonathan Culler, Cornell University,

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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Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks’s diverse critical work.
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Rachel Bowlby I. Reading Brooks 1. Afforded by the Plot: Downstream Responses Terence Cave 2. The Critical Imagination Alex Woloch 3. Reading For and Against the Plot David Shields 4. Melodrama or Irony? Aaron Matz II. Brooks Reading 5. Storied by Seduction Janet Beizer 6. Reading with Balzac Martine Reid 7. Reading for the Plot, or Rereading Stendhal in 2023 Susanna Lee 8. Knowledge and its Limitations Ann Jefferson III. Psychoanalysis 9. What Does a Worldly Criticism Mean? Alessia Ricciardi 10. Telling Stories: From Stories to Talking to Metaphor to Narrative Juliet Mitchell 11. Looking After the Reader? Transference, Tutelage and the Novel Sarah Raff IV. Histories 12. Brooks in the Ruins: Flaubert and the Politics of Narrative Maurice Samuels 13. The Fingerprint Story Rachel Bowlby 14. Brooks’s James: A Blind Man in Paris Caroline Weber V. Brooks’s Yale 15. Intellectual Trajectory Peter Brooks 16. Peter Brooks and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Sarah Winter 17. Majoring in Literature David Marshall VI. Disciplinary Stories 18. ‘Confessing’ the Power of Education: Personal Stories in Policy, Advocacy and Fundraising Chiara Benetollo 19. The Stakes of the Plot: Narrative in Law Tal Kastner 20. Prison Term Peter Brooks Index
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Peter Brooks’s achievements considered from many angles

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These lively, brief but extremely efficient essays by a host of distinguished contributors highlight the range and impact over the years of Peter Brooks's scholarship in the overlapping areas of narrative studies, psychoanalysis and law. Every reader will find something of interest here.

- Jonathan Culler, Cornell University,

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.
Les mer
Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks’s diverse critical work.
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Rachel Bowlby I. Reading Brooks 1. Afforded by the Plot: Downstream Responses Terence Cave 2. The Critical Imagination Alex Woloch 3. Reading For and Against the Plot David Shields 4. Melodrama or Irony? Aaron Matz II. Brooks Reading 5. Storied by Seduction Janet Beizer 6. Reading with Balzac Martine Reid 7. Reading for the Plot, or Rereading Stendhal in 2023 Susanna Lee 8. Knowledge and its Limitations Ann Jefferson III. Psychoanalysis 9. What Does a Worldly Criticism Mean? Alessia Ricciardi 10. Telling Stories: From Stories to Talking to Metaphor to Narrative Juliet Mitchell 11. Looking After the Reader? Transference, Tutelage and the Novel Sarah Raff IV. Histories 12. Brooks in the Ruins: Flaubert and the Politics of Narrative Maurice Samuels 13. The Fingerprint Story Rachel Bowlby 14. Brooks’s James: A Blind Man in Paris Caroline Weber V. Brooks’s Yale 15. Intellectual Trajectory Peter Brooks 16. Peter Brooks and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Sarah Winter 17. Majoring in Literature David Marshall VI. Disciplinary Stories 18. ‘Confessing’ the Power of Education: Personal Stories in Policy, Advocacy and Fundraising Chiara Benetollo 19. The Stakes of the Plot: Narrative in Law Tal Kastner 20. Prison Term Peter Brooks Index
Les mer
Peter Brooks’s achievements considered from many angles

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399538374
Publisert
2024-11-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Redaktør
Bowlby Rachel

Om bidragsyterne

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 Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life (2025).

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