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Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world โas it is.โ Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense intere...
The Use and Abuse of Narrative
In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. โThereโs n...
Design and Intention in Narrative
A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the...
Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
The desire to know the body is a powerful dynamic of storytelling in all its forms. Peter Brooks argues that modern narrative is intent on uncovering ...
Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
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From eminent critic Peter Brooks, an exploration of the modern preoccupation with identity "We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we...
This title is the sister book to the global best-seller Metrics for IT Service Management. Taking the basics steps described there, this new title des...
Henry James's reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the ...
Napoleon, twenty years dead, rises like a phoenix over the politics of France and the destinies of three lovers. Against the historical backdrop of th...
In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melo...
"In Zeppelin: Rigid Airships, 1893-1940, Peter Brooks traces the entire development and service history of all the 163 rigid airships ever built." "Be...
This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, an...
Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal
Contending that a search for "realism" distorts the writing of Crรฉbillon, Marivaux, Laclos, and Stendahl, Peter Brooks considers their novels with re...
Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
Literature has often understood the problematic nature of confession better than the law, as Brooks demonstrates in perceptive readings of legal cases...
The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year
From a distinguished literary historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during France's "terrible year" -- summer ...
This book 'Implementing Metrics for IT Service Management' provides a measurement framework which is based on a continuous improvement lifecycle. The ...
A Guide to Sustainable Weightloss
The Weight Loss Solution You've Been Looking For So, you're tired of trying every fad diet out there, feeling like you're constantly hungry and seeing...
Sustainable Eating Habits
Revamp Your Eating Habits with the Mediterranean Diet You know how you're always feeling tired and sluggish, no matter how many cups of coffee you dow...
In 1963 George Wilson, the landlord of the Fox and Grapes public house in Sneinton, Nottingham was brutally stabbed to death outside his pub. The pub ...
A Guide for Clinicians
This booklet is the outcome of a multi-disciplinary review of the scientific evidence for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of acute low back, th...
A UK Standardised Test for Prose Reading Accuracy, Comprehension and Speed, with Norms for Writing Speeds
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism focuses on criticism in the Classical period up to about A.D. 325. This first survey examines ...
Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to...
An Introduction to Fiction-making, Its Forms, and Uses
Improving Spelling in Children with Literacy Difficulties and All Children in Mainstream Schools
Peaceful Mirror of a Turbulent Past
The Story of Cromer and Sheringham in the Second World War
A Cautionary Tale
My older son, Peter Butler, jumped from a Boston hotel in 1989 at age 22. He was an intelligent, sober & utterly decent young man but his suicide is n...
A College Anthology
An Empirical Investigation
Delacroix's 'moments'
The narrative of historical events was of prime political and aesthetic importance to the generation that came to the fore in France in 1830. The choi...