The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell StoriesBloomsbury Publishing, 11. 11. 2005 - 736 strán (strany) This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come. |
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Strana 36
... married to Amy, a pretty young Quaker (Grace Kelly). No sooner is the ceremony over than Kane unpins his badge of office and he and his new bride prepare to leave the town for ever. But then shocking news arrives. Some years earlier ...
... married to Amy, a pretty young Quaker (Grace Kelly). No sooner is the ceremony over than Kane unpins his badge of office and he and his new bride prepare to leave the town for ever. But then shocking news arrives. Some years earlier ...
Strana 63
... marriage and glorious outward success on the stage of the world. But in no sense is he yet fully developed and ... marry him. Indeed for a long time it seems certain that he will marry someone else, a well-born, arrogant neighbour ...
... marriage and glorious outward success on the stage of the world. But in no sense is he yet fully developed and ... marry him. Indeed for a long time it seems certain that he will marry someone else, a well-born, arrogant neighbour ...
Strana 64
... married, the central crisis of the story erupts. A voice calls out from the back of the church that the wedding cannot take place because Rochester is already married. It turns out that for years he has been con- cealing his crazed ...
... married, the central crisis of the story erupts. A voice calls out from the back of the church that the wedding cannot take place because Rochester is already married. It turns out that for years he has been con- cealing his crazed ...
Strana 67
... married woman in the town where they live , but eventually he contemp- tuously rejects her . He then goes off to a seminary for prospective priests , but only because he has calculated that the Church is the best stepping stone for a ...
... married woman in the town where they live , but eventually he contemp- tuously rejects her . He then goes off to a seminary for prospective priests , but only because he has calculated that the Church is the best stepping stone for a ...
Strana 68
... married him to serve her own ambitions . He may outwardly have married the ' Princess ' and ' succeeded to the kingdom . But in no way has he reached that state of glorious completion and inner fulfilment which is the proper goal of the ...
... married him to serve her own ambitions . He may outwardly have married the ' Princess ' and ' succeeded to the kingdom . But in no way has he reached that state of glorious completion and inner fulfilment which is the proper goal of the ...
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THE COMPLETE HAPPY ENDING | 237 |
MISSING THE MARK | 345 |
WHY WE TELL STORIES | 541 |
The Light and the Shadows on the Wall | 699 |
Authors Personal Note | 703 |
Glossary of Terms | 707 |
Bibliography | 711 |
Index of Stories Cited | 715 |
General Index | 720 |
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