{"product_id":"seduced-by-story-the-use-and-abuse-of-narrative","title":"Seduced by Story : The Use and Abuse of Narrative","description":"\u003csection class=\"overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this spiritual sequel to his influential \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReading for the Plot\u003c\/em\u003e, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForty years after publishing his seminal work \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReading for the Plot\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a discussion that ranges from \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Girl on the Train\u003c\/em\u003e to legal argument, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e Published: USA, 2022\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 173\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9781681376639\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 1681376636\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Peter Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43815049396490,"sku":"","price":20.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781681376639.jpg?v=1667574768","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/seduced-by-story-the-use-and-abuse-of-narrative","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}