The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell StoriesBloomsbury Publishing, 11 nov 2005 - 736 pagina's 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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Pagina 4
... everything goes wrong ; until that original dream has turned into a nightmare . Finally , seemingly inex- orably , the story works up to a climax of violent self - destruction . The dream ends in death . So consistent was the pattern ...
... everything goes wrong ; until that original dream has turned into a nightmare . Finally , seemingly inex- orably , the story works up to a climax of violent self - destruction . The dream ends in death . So consistent was the pattern ...
Pagina 28
... everything which characterised the most lurid monster-tales of the distant past. Since Perseus and Andromeda, for instance, has there been any more vivid image of the 'Princess' struggling in the clutches of the monster than the famous ...
... everything which characterised the most lurid monster-tales of the distant past. Since Perseus and Andromeda, for instance, has there been any more vivid image of the 'Princess' struggling in the clutches of the monster than the famous ...
Pagina 56
... everything to his cat, has no sooner become rich and put on his finery than he is revealed genteel young to all fellow'. the world 3 (as the narrator is careful to point out) as 'a thoroughly Yet obviously these dazzling young heroes ...
... everything to his cat, has no sooner become rich and put on his finery than he is revealed genteel young to all fellow'. the world 3 (as the narrator is careful to point out) as 'a thoroughly Yet obviously these dazzling young heroes ...
Pagina 60
... everything which , in real life , had happened to Goodman subsequently . Such is the power of the underlying archetype to dictate the shape of a story . 5. Robert Irwin points out in The Arabian Nights : A Companion ( 1994 ) that the ...
... everything which , in real life , had happened to Goodman subsequently . Such is the power of the underlying archetype to dictate the shape of a story . 5. Robert Irwin points out in The Arabian Nights : A Companion ( 1994 ) that the ...
Pagina 62
... everything that was most dear to him, but the king is in a towering rage, threatening that unlessAladdin can return everything to where it was within forty days he will be put to death. Faced with this unprecedented crisis, not knowing ...
... everything that was most dear to him, but the king is in a towering rage, threatening that unlessAladdin can return everything to where it was within forty days he will be put to death. Faced with this unprecedented crisis, not knowing ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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