Peter Brooks is Chester T. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Yale University. The author of numerous articles on French and English literature as well as on narrative theory and psychoanalysis, his works include The Novel of Worldlines (1969), The Melodramatic Imagination (1976), and the widely-praised Reading for the Plot (1984), recently reissued. His latest book Body Work (1993) deals with the female body in literature, painting, and film as the object of desire.

• Preface viIntroduction 1John S. Rickard and Harold SchweizerThe Idea of Psychoanalytic Criticism 20Changes in Margins: Construction, Transference, and Narrative 46The Storyteller 76Constructing Narrative: An Interview with Peter Brooks 104Peter Brooks: A Bibliography, 1963-1993 132 Mary E. SchoonoverIndex 142

Peter Brooks is Chester T. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Yale University. The author of numerous articles on French and English literature as well as on narrative theory and psychoanalysis, his works include The Novel of Worldlines (1969), The Melodramatic Imagination (1976), and the widely-praised Reading for the Plot (1984), recently reissued. His latest book Body Work (1993) deals with the female body in literature, painting, and film as the object of desire.

• Preface viIntroduction 1John S. Rickard and Harold SchweizerThe Idea of Psychoanalytic Criticism 20Changes in Margins: Construction, Transference, and Narrative 46The Storyteller 76Constructing Narrative: An Interview with Peter Brooks 104Peter Brooks: A Bibliography, 1963-1993 132 Mary E. SchoonoverIndex 142