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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

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Critics

53/100

Scholars

96/100

Author:

Peter Brooks

Publisher:

New York Review Books

Date:

October 18, 2022

Forty years after publishing Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the "narrative turn" in contemporary criticism and philosophy, Brooks 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.

What The Reviewers Say

Jennifer Szalai,
The New York Times
Intriguing.

Publishers Weekly
Bracing and insightful.

Kirkus
Rigorous.