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008			211103s2022 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2021050594
020			_a9781681376639 _q(paperback)
020			_z9781681376646 _q(ebook)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dDLC _dMiTN
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050	0	0	_aPN212 _b.B766 2022
082	0	0	_a808/.036 _223/eng/20211103
100	1		_aBrooks, Peter, _d1938-
245	1	0	_aSeduced by story : _bthe use and abuse of narrative / _cPeter Brooks.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew York Review Books, _c2022.
300			_a173 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a""'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 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, 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aNarration (Rhetoric)
650		0	_aStorytelling _xPhilosophy.
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