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092 0  808|bengelska 
100 1  Brooks, Peter,|d1938-|4aut 
245 10 Seduced by story :|bthe use and abuse of narrative /
       |cPeter Brooks 
264  1 New York :|bNew York Review Books,|c[2022] 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    173 pages|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  New York Review Books 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    ""'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 Narration (Rhetoric) 
650  0 Storytelling|xPhilosophy 
650  7 Levnadsberättelser|2sao 
650  7 Berättarteknik|xteori, filosofi|2sao 
650  7 Berättarteknik|xsociala aspekter|2sao 
830  0 New York Review Books