Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative - Peter Brooks - Livros - The New York Review of Books, Inc - 9781681376639 - 18 de outubro de 2022
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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Peter Brooks

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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.

"There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it." Thus spake Tyrion in the final episode of Game of Thrones, claiming the throne for Bran the Broken. Many viewers liked neither the choice of king nor its rationale. But the claim that story brings you to world dominance seems by now so banal that it's common wisdom. Narrative seems to have become accepted as the one and only form of knowledge and speech that regulates human affairs.

So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks's reckoning with today's flourishing cult of story. Forty years after Brooks published his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his own important contribution to what came to be known as the "narrative turn" in contemporary criticism and philosophy, he returns to question the unquestioning fashion in which story is now embraced as an excuse or explanation and the fact that every brand or politician comes equipped with one. In a discussion that ranges from Gone Girl to legal argument, to the power storytellers exercise over their audiences, to what it means for readers and listeners to project themselves imaginatively into fictional characters, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive. Precisely because story does command our attention so much, we must be skeptical of it and cultivate ways of thinking about our world and ourselves that run counter to our penchant for a good story.


176 pages

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 18 de outubro de 2022
ISBN13 9781681376639
Editoras The New York Review of Books, Inc
Páginas 176
Dimensões 214 × 146 × 17 mm   ·   240 g
Idioma English  

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