In the hands of culture warriors, stories have become weaponized. It’s difficult to figure out how we should fight back.
Tag Archives: Seduced by Story
Literary Characters, Mirrors of the Soul
Literary characters, according to Peter Brooks, help us understand “the most elusive and consequential issues of our limited human existence.
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To Understand Your Life, Read Novels
Theorist Peter Brooks contends that it is through novels that we find shape and meaning to our lives.
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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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Worried about BS? Read Great Lit
While I enjoy Peter Brooks’s “Seduced by Story,” I wish it went further.
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