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 21
... followed, many fascinating discoveries were made at Niniveh, but none more so than a mass of clay tablets which came to light in 1853, covered in small wedge-shaped marks which were obviously some unknown form of writing. The task of ...
... followed, many fascinating discoveries were made at Niniveh, but none more so than a mass of clay tablets which came to light in 1853, covered in small wedge-shaped marks which were obviously some unknown form of writing. The task of ...
Pagina 26
... followed the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the more obviously fantastic dragons and mon- sters of old slipped below the horizon of European storytelling (although they never faded away altogether). But then, in a way which to the ...
... followed the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the more obviously fantastic dragons and mon- sters of old slipped below the horizon of European storytelling (although they never faded away altogether). But then, in a way which to the ...
Pagina 46
... followed in the nick of time by miraculous deliverance . For instance , Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Camus's La Peste are both stories set in a city which has been attacked by a mysterious , deadly pestilence . From ...
... followed in the nick of time by miraculous deliverance . For instance , Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year and Camus's La Peste are both stories set in a city which has been attacked by a mysterious , deadly pestilence . From ...
Pagina 47
Why We Tell Stories Christopher Booker. Inferno ( 1974 ) . This followed the experience of a disparate group of people who become trapped in a huge skyscraper , during the hours after an electrical fire breaks out in the bowels of the ...
Why We Tell Stories Christopher Booker. Inferno ( 1974 ) . This followed the experience of a disparate group of people who become trapped in a huge skyscraper , during the hours after an electrical fire breaks out in the bowels of the ...
Pagina 49
... followed by the surge of relief at his thrilling escape from death – that a whole sub-group of tales has grown up which use just this element in the story to make a plot in itself. And this serves to introduce another very important ...
... followed by the surge of relief at his thrilling escape from death – that a whole sub-group of tales has grown up which use just this element in the story to make a plot in itself. And this serves to introduce another very important ...
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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