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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... nature and instinct . In unravelling these riddles , what we see is how and why the hidden language of stories provides us with a picture of human nature and the inner dynamics of human behaviour which nothing else can present to us ...
... nature and instinct . In unravelling these riddles , what we see is how and why the hidden language of stories provides us with a picture of human nature and the inner dynamics of human behaviour which nothing else can present to us ...
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... nature which is mysterious and hard to define . It may be : strange , shapeless , sinister , weird , nightmarish , ghastly , hellish , fiendish , demonic , dark . In other words , in its oddly elusive way , we see this ' night creature ...
... nature which is mysterious and hard to define . It may be : strange , shapeless , sinister , weird , nightmarish , ghastly , hellish , fiendish , demonic , dark . In other words , in its oddly elusive way , we see this ' night creature ...
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... nature. A well-known example of this second genre was John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951), which began with a combination of two human experiments going disastrously wrong. A spectacular light show in the heavens turns out to ...
... nature. A well-known example of this second genre was John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951), which began with a combination of two human experiments going disastrously wrong. A spectacular light show in the heavens turns out to ...
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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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