{"product_id":"reading-with-peter-brooks","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483335795061,"sku":"9781399538374","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399538374.jpg?v=1786178473","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/reading-with-peter-brooks","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}