{"product_id":"reading-with-peter-brooks-9781399538374","title":"Reading with Peter Brooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003ci\u003e Reading for the Plot \u003c\/i\u003ewas perhaps the best known of these until Brooks published \u003ci\u003eSeduced by Story \u003c\/i\u003e(2022), a provocative calling out of the now ubiquitous cultural stress on 'stories' of all and any kind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900327170322,"sku":"9781399538374","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fd93d2a6-98ce-491a-bedd-f519c18a25e4.jpg?v=1738379634","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-with-peter-brooks-9781399538374","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}