Reading with Peter Brooks / edited by Rachel Bowlby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowlby, Rachel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

I Reading Brooks

1. Afforded by the Plot: Downstream Responses

2. The Critical Imagination

3. Reading For and Against the Plot

4. Melodrama or Irony?

II Brooks Reading

5. Storied by Seduction

6. Reading with Balzac

7. Reading for the Plot, or Rereading Stendhal in 2023

8. Knowledge and Its Limitations

III Psychoanalysis

9. What Does a Worldly Criticism Mean?

10. Telling Stories: From Stories to Talking to Metaphor to Narrative

11. Looking After the Reader? Transference, Tutelage and the Novel

IV Histories

12. Brooks in the Ruins: Flaubert and the Politics of Narrative

13. The Fingerprint Story

14. Brooks's James: A Blind Man in Paris

V Brooks's Yale

15. Intellectual Trajectory

16. Peter Brooks and the Interdisciplinary Humanities

17. Majoring in Literature

VI Disciplinary Stories

18. 'Confessing' the Power of Education: Personal Stories in Policy, Advocacy and Fundraising

19. The Stakes of the Plot: Narrative in Law

20. Prison Term

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781399538398

139953839X

OCLC:

1463064456