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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... shape in remarkably similar ways. NO. We are all familiar with the teasing notion that there may be'only seven (or six, or five) basic stories in the world'. It is tantalising not least because, even though this suggestion has not ...
... shape in remarkably similar ways. NO. We are all familiar with the teasing notion that there may be'only seven (or six, or five) basic stories in the world'. It is tantalising not least because, even though this suggestion has not ...
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... shape . Not surprisingly , these included a good many dramatic and operatic tragedies , such as Romeo and Juliet or Carmen . They included myths and legends , such as that of Don Juan ; novels , such as the dreams turned to nightmare of ...
... shape . Not surprisingly , these included a good many dramatic and operatic tragedies , such as Romeo and Juliet or Carmen . They included myths and legends , such as that of Don Juan ; novels , such as the dreams turned to nightmare of ...
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... shape the stories they had inspired ; so that one might find , for instance , a well - known nineteenth - century novel con- structed in almost exactly the same way as a Middle Eastern folk tale dating from 1200 years before ; or a ...
... shape the stories they had inspired ; so that one might find , for instance , a well - known nineteenth - century novel con- structed in almost exactly the same way as a Middle Eastern folk tale dating from 1200 years before ; or a ...
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... shape in the human mind . The third part of the book , ' Missing the Mark ' , which concentrates almost entirely on stories from the last 200 years , explores how and why it is possible , in a storyteller's imagination , for a story to ...
... shape in the human mind . The third part of the book , ' Missing the Mark ' , which concentrates almost entirely on stories from the last 200 years , explores how and why it is possible , in a storyteller's imagination , for a story to ...
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... shapes to stories, dictating the nature of the road which the hero or heroine may take to their ultimate destination. It is at the most important of these underlying shapes or 'basic plots' that we must now look. Chapter 1 Overcoming ...
... shapes to stories, dictating the nature of the road which the hero or heroine may take to their ultimate destination. It is at the most important of these underlying shapes or 'basic plots' that we must now look. Chapter 1 Overcoming ...
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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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