Peter Brooks (writer)

For the film director, see Peter Brook.

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Peter Brooks (born 1938) is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University and from 2008-2014 Mellon Visiting Professor in the department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is formerly Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia. Among his many accomplishments is the founding of the Whitney's Humanities Center at Yale University. Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, law, and psychoanalysis.

Education

Brooks obtained both his B.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1965) from Harvard. He also studied at University College, London (UCL) as a Marshall Scholar and at the University of Paris.

Books

• The Novel of Worldliness: Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal (1969)
• The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (1976) ISBN 0300065531
• Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984) ISBN 0674748921
• Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993) ISBN 0674077253
• Psychoanalysis and Storytelling (1994) ISBN 0631190082
• Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (co-editor with Paul Gewirtz, 1996) ISBN 0300074905
• Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (2000) ISBN 0-226-07585-0
• Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (co-editor with Alex Woloch) (2000) ISBN 0-300-08116-2
• Realist Vision (2005) ISBN 0300106807
• Henry James Goes to Paris (2007) ISBN 0691129541

Papers

• Brooks, Peter (1972), "Romania and the Widening Gyre", PMLA, 87 (1), PMLA, Vol. 87, No. 1: 7–11, doi:10.2307/460779, JSTOR 460779{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1973), "Virtue and Terror: The Monk", ELH, 40 (2), ELH, Vol. 40, No. 2: 249–263, doi:10.2307/2872659, JSTOR 2872659{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1973), "Man and His Fictions: One Approach to the Teaching of Literature", College English, 35 (1), College English, Vol. 35, No. 1: 40–49, doi:10.2307/375195, JSTOR 375195{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1976), "Structuralist Poetics. Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler", Diacritics, 6 (1): 23–26, ISSN 0300-7162, retrieved 2008-02-24{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1977), "Freud's Masterplot", Yale French Studies, 55/56: 280–300, retrieved 2008-02-23

• Brooks, Peter (1978), "Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein", New Literary History, 9 (3), New Literary History, Vol. 9, No. 3: 591–605, doi:10.2307/468457, JSTOR 468457{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1979), "Fictions of the Wolfman: Freud and Narrative Understanding", Diacritics, 9 (1), Diacritics, Vol. 9, No. 1: 71–81, doi:10.2307/464701, JSTOR 464701{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1980), "Repetition, Repression, and Return: Great Expectations and the Study of Plot", New Literary History, 11 (3), New Literary History, Vol. 11, No. 3: 503–526, doi:10.2307/468941, JSTOR 468941{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1982), "The Novel and the Guillotine; Or, Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir", PMLA, 97 (3), PMLA, Vol. 97, No. 3: 348–362, doi:10.2307/462227, JSTOR 462227{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1982), "Narrative Transaction and Transference (Unburying "Le Colonel Chabert")", NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 15 (2), NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 2: 101–110, doi:10.2307/1345218, JSTOR 1345218

• Brooks, Peter (1982), "Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom!", Comparative Literature, 34 (3), Comparative Literature, Vol. 34, No. 3: 247–268, doi:10.2307/1770556, JSTOR 1770556{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1987), "The Idea of a Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism", Critical Inquiry, 13 (2): 334–348, doi:10.1086/448394, JSTOR 1343497{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1989), "Storied Bodies, or Nana at Last Unveil'd", Critical Inquiry, 16 (1): 1–32, doi:10.1086/448524, JSTOR 1343624{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (1994), "Aesthetics and Ideology: What Happened to Poetics?", Critical Inquiry, 20 (3): 509–523, doi:10.1086/448723, JSTOR 1343867{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Brooks, Peter (2000), "A Beginning in the Humanities", PMLA, 115 (7), PMLA, Vol. 115, No. 7: 1955–1957, doi:10.2307/463614, JSTOR 463614{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

External links

• Faculty bio at Yale Comp Lit department