Theorist Peter Brooks contends that it is through novels that we find shape and meaning to our lives.
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To Understand Your Life, Read Novels
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The Usefulness of “Let’s Pretend”
In “Seduced by Story,” Brooks challenges the idea that literature is meant to be useful. Instead, he says, it resembles play (and then acknowledges that play itself is useful).
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Are We Watching Shakespeare or Beckett?
Friday When assuring my English majors that they will find jobs in the world beyond college, I sometimes point out that they are experts in narrative. Increasingly we are learning how much we process reality through stories, and political operatives talk ceaselessly about “controlling the narrative.” How you organize facts (or for that matter, lies) […]
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Please, Writers–More Complex Narratives
Sports narratives that look only at winning and losing are simplistic and misleading.
Father, Son, Holy Spirit – A Story for Each
Can different members of the Holy Trinity be seen to shape different narratives?
Science Tells Us Lit Helps Us with Life
Recent brain research indicates that fiction helps us “understand the complexities of social life.”
