Reading with Peter Brooks
Reading with Peter Brooks by Rachel Bowlby, published by Edinburgh University Press on November 30, 2024, is a collection of mini-essays that explore the critical writings of Peter Brooks. This edition, comprising 200 pages, delves into Brooks’s influential contributions to various fields, including literary history, narrative theory, and psychoanalytic studies. The essays reflect on the significance of his work and its impact on critical thinking across diverse disciplinary contexts.
Readers will find a thoughtful examination of Brooks’s ideas, including insights from his notable works such as Reading for the Plot and Seduced by Story. The volume also features two longer essays by Brooks, one detailing his experiences with prison teaching. This collection highlights the intersections of literature, criticism, and interdisciplinary studies, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the evolving discourse surrounding books and reading.
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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 (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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