Reading with Peter Brooks

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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction
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- By Rachel Bowlby
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1 - Reading Brooks
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1 - Afforded by the Plot Downstream Responses
pp 15-23
- By Terence Cave
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2 - The Critical Imagination
pp 24-29
- By Alex Woloch
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3 - Reading For and Against the Plot
pp 30-34
- By David Shields
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4 - Melodrama or Irony?
pp 35-42
- By Aaron Matz
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II - Brooks Reading
pp 43-44
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5 - Storied by Seduction
pp 45-50
- By Janet Beizer
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6 - Reading with Balzac
pp 51-56
- By Martine Reid
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7 - Reading for the Plot, or Rereading Stendhal in 2023
pp 57-65
- By Susanna Lee
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8 - Knowledge and Its Limitations
pp 66-74
- By Ann Jefferson
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III - Psychoanalysis
pp 75-76
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9 - What Does a Worldly Criticism Mean?
pp 77-84
- By Alessia Ricciardi
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10 - Telling Stories: From Stories to Talking to Metaphor to Narrative
pp 85-92
- By Juliet Mitchell
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11 - Looking After the Reader? Transference,Tutelage and the Novel
pp 93-98
- By Sarah Raff
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IV - Histories
pp 99-100
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12 - Brooks in the Ruins: Flaubert and the Politics of Narrative
pp 101-107
- By Maurice Samuels
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13 - The Fingerprint Story
pp 108-114
- By Rachel Bowlby
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14 - Brooks’s James: A Blind Man in Paris
pp 115-120
- By Caroline Weber
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V - Brooks’s Yale
pp 121-122
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15 - Intellectual Trajectory
pp 123-135
- By Peter Brooks
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16 - Peter Brooks and the Interdisciplinary Humanities
pp 136-142
- By Sarah Winter
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17 - Majoring in Literature
pp 143-148
- By David Marshall
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VI - Disciplinary Stories
pp 149-150
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18 - ‘Confessing’ the Power of Education: Personal Stories in Policy, Advocacy and Fundraising
pp 151-156
- By Chiara Benetollo
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19 - The Stakes of the Plot: Narrative in Law
pp 157-163
- By Tal Kastner
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