Peter Brooks

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Peter Brooks (born 1938) is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is formerly Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia. Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work cuts across French and English literature, Law, and psychiatry.

Contents 1 Education 2 Books 3 Papers 4 External links

[edit] Education

Brooks obtained both his B.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1965) from Harvard.

[edit] 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

[edit] Papers

• Brooks, Peter (1972), “Romania and the Widening Gyre”, PMLA 87 (1): 7-11, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129(197201)87%3A1%3C7%3ARATWG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1973), “Virtue and Terror: The Monk”, ELH 40 (2): 249-263, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304(197322)40%3A2%3C249%3AVATTM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1973), “Man and His Fictions: One Approach to the Teaching of Literature”, College English 35 (1): 40-49, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-0994(197310)35%3A1%3C40%3AMAHFOA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1976), “Structuralist Poetics. Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature by Jonathan Culler”, Diacritics 6 (1): 23-26, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0300-7162(197621)6%3A1%3C23%3ACR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1977), “Freud's Masterplot”, Yale French Studies 55/56: 280-300, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0044-0078(1977)55%2F56%3C280%3AFM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G>. Retrieved on 2008-02-23 

• Brooks, Peter (1978), “Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein”, New Literary History 9 (3): 591-605, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-6087(197821)9%3A3%3C591%3AGSALAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1979), “Fictions of the Wolfman: Freud and Narrative Understanding”, Diacritics 9 (1): 71-81, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0300-7162(197921)9%3A1%3C71%3AFOTWFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5>. Retrieved on 2008-02-23 

• Brooks, Peter (1980), “Repetition, Repression, and Return: Great Expectations and the Study of Plot”, New Literary History 11 (3): 503-526, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-6087(198021)11%3A3%3C503%3ARRARGE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1982), “The Novel and the Guillotine; Or, Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir”, PMLA 97 (3): 348-362, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129(198205)97%3A3%3C348%3ATNATGO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1982), “Narrative Transaction and Transference (Unburying "Le Colonel Chabert")”, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 15 (2): 101-110, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0029-5132(198224)15%3A2%3C101%3ANTAT(%22%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1982), “Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom!”, Comparative Literature 34 (3): 247-268, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-4124(198222)34%3A3%3C247%3AINAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1987), “The Idea of a Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism”, Critical Inquiry 13 (2): 334-348, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-1896(198724)13%3A2%3C334%3ATIOAPL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H>. Retrieved on 2008-02-23 

• Brooks, Peter (1989), “Storied Bodies, or Nana at Last Unveil'd”, Critical Inquiry 16 (1): 1-32, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-1896(198923)16%3A1%3C1%3ASBONAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

• Brooks, Peter (1994), “Aesthetics and Ideology: What Happened to Poetics?”, Critical Inquiry 20 (3): 509-523, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0093-1896(199421)20%3A3%3C509%3AAAIWHT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2>. Retrieved on 2008-02-23 

• Brooks, Peter (2000), “A Beginning in the Humanities”, PMLA 115 (7): 1955-1957, <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129(200012)115%3A7%3C1955%3AABITH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q>. Retrieved on 2008-02-24 

[edit] External links

• Faculty bio at Yale Comp Lit department