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1399538373 pdf For many decades Peter Brookss 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 Brookss work in their own ways, to demonstrate and celebrateits 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. Read more