Reading with Peter Brooks

Cover
Introduction
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
I Reading Brooks
	1. Afforded by the Plot: Downstream Responses
	2. The Critical Imagination
	3. Reading For and Against the Plot
	4. Melodrama or Irony?
II Brooks Reading
	5. Storied by Seduction
	6. Reading with Balzac
	7. Reading for the Plot, or Rereading Stendhal in 2023
	8. Knowledge and Its Limitations
III Psychoanalysis
	9. What Does a Worldly Criticism Mean?
	10. Telling Stories: From Stories to Talking to Metaphor to Narrative
	11. Looking After the Reader? Transference, Tutelage and the Novel
IV Histories
	12. Brooks in the Ruins: Flaubert and the Politics of Narrative
	13. The Fingerprint Story
	14. Brooks’s James: A Blind Man in Paris
V Brooks’s Yale
	15. Intellectual Trajectory
	16. Peter Brooks and the Interdisciplinary Humanities
	17. Majoring in Literature
VI Disciplinary Stories
	18. ‘Confessing’ the Power of Education: Personal Stories in Policy, Advocacy and Fundraising
	19. The Stakes of the Plot: Narrative in Law
	20. Prison Term
Index