Seduced-by-Story-The-Use-and-Abuse-of-Narrative

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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Sinopsis :
In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot,
Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of
storytelling.&#8220Thre&#8217nothing in the world more
powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can
defeat it.&#8221So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter
Brooks&#8217reckoning with today&#8217flourishing cult of
story. Forty years after publishing his seminal workReading for
the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known
as the &#8220narative turn&#8221in 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. In a discussion that ranges fromThe Girl on
the Trainto legal argument, Brooks reminds us that among the
powers of narrative is the power to deceive.