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There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.' Thus spake Tyrion in the final episode of Game of Thrones, claiming the throne for Bran the Broken. Many viewers liked neither the choice of king nor its rationale. But the claim that story brings you to world dominance seems by now so banal that it's common wisdom. Narrative seems to have become accepted as the one and only form of knowledge and speech that regulates human affairs." So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks's reckoning with today's flourishing cult of story. Forty years after Brooks published his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his own important contribution to what came to be known as the "narrative turn" in contemporary criticism and philosophy, he returns to question the unquestioning fashion in which story is now embraced as excuse or explanation and the fact that every brand or politician comes equipped with one. In a discussion that ranges from Gone Girl to legal argument, to the power storytellers exercise over their audiences, to what it means for readers and listeners to project themselves imaginatively into fictional characters, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive. Precisely because story does command our attention so, we must be skeptical of it and cultivate ways of thinking about our world and ourselves that run counter to our penchant for a good story.

Incipit (narration) --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Storytelling --- Philosophy

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This papyrus (3rd century BC) contains c. 200 incipits (first lines) of Greek epigrams with a numeral at the end of each line that gives the number of lines of the complete epigram ; most of them had 4 lines. Of these, only one has been ascribed to a known poet (Asklepiades), but it is by no means clear that all of them were his. Their publication, greatly aided by multispectral photography, is a very welcome addition to Hellenistic poetry

Incipit (narration) --- Épigrammes grecques --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Epigrams, Greek --- Papyrus grecs --- Criticism, Textual. --- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. --- Epigrammes grecques

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"Alors que la théorie théâtrale a beaucoup réfléchi sur la notion de dénouement, celle de début de pièces est restée largement négligée. Pourtant, cette étape initiale soulève d'importantes questions quant à l'écriture et à la représentation des pièces. Comment passer de rien à quelque chose tout en respectant un ensemble d'exigences techniques et esthétiques telles que la réception du public, la scénographie ou la vraisemblance ? Choisissant d'adopter une perspective diachronique à l'époque de la première modernité, ce volume dessine une "histoire des débuts" marquée par l'évolution des pratiques dramaturgiques en France, en Italie et en Espagne. Sur ces trois aires géographiques, il entend inaugurer un ensemble de réflexions inédites."--Page 4 of cover.

Théâtre -- Mise en scène --- Théâtre -- Histoire --- Théorie du théâtre --- Mise en scène --- Histoire --- Théorie du théâtre --- Incipit (narration) --- Théâtre --- Renaissance. --- Au théâtre. --- French drama --- Italian drama --- Spanish drama --- Prologues and epilogues --- Theater --- Theatrical science --- drama [discipline] --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- France --- Italy --- Spain --- History and criticism --- History