The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell StoriesBloomsbury Publishing, 11.11.2005 - 736 Seiten 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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... girl called Alice , wondering how to amuse herself in the summer heat ...... . then suddenly she sees a White Rabbit running past , and vanishing down a mysterious hole . We see the great detective Sherlock Holmes sitting in his Baker ...
... girl called Alice , wondering how to amuse herself in the summer heat ...... . then suddenly she sees a White Rabbit running past , and vanishing down a mysterious hole . We see the great detective Sherlock Holmes sitting in his Baker ...
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... girl, which allows the story to end on the image of a man and woman united in love. But the two original brave heroes ride off into the wide blue yonder, having over- come the 'monster' and saved the community. Another classic Hollywood ...
... girl, which allows the story to end on the image of a man and woman united in love. But the two original brave heroes ride off into the wide blue yonder, having over- come the 'monster' and saved the community. Another classic Hollywood ...
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... girl Eliza Doolittle into a grand and beautiful lady which made one of the most popular stage and film musicals of our time , My Fair Lady ( although without Shaw's original happy ending in Pygmalion , where Eliza finally marries and ...
... girl Eliza Doolittle into a grand and beautiful lady which made one of the most popular stage and film musicals of our time , My Fair Lady ( although without Shaw's original happy ending in Pygmalion , where Eliza finally marries and ...
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... girl who had become the dearest thing to him in the world ; his life is in ruins . But then comes the second half of the story , when he helps his friend Big Jim to dis- cover a lost gold mine and is rewarded with a share which makes ...
... girl who had become the dearest thing to him in the world ; his life is in ruins . But then comes the second half of the story , when he helps his friend Big Jim to dis- cover a lost gold mine and is rewarded with a share which makes ...
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Inhalt
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15 | |
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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Aladdin Amleth anima Anna Karenina archetypal arrives beautiful become begins central figure centre century characters Comedy comes complete consciousness Creon Dark Father dark feminine dark figure dark masculine dark power Dark Rival death developed Don Giovanni Dream Stage egocentric egotism emerge eventually everything familiar fantasy film finally girl goal Hamlet happens happy ending heart hero and heroine hero or heroine human imagination inner James Bond Jane Eyre journey killed king kingdom liberated light lives look Macbeth married Moby Dick mother murder mysterious nature Nightmare Stage novel obsession Odysseus Oedipus ordeals Overcoming the Monster pattern play plot Princess Quest Rags to Riches realise recognise represents role seems seen sense shadow storytelling symbolic symbolised Teiresias tells Theseus thing Tragedy transformation true turn type of story ultimately uncon unconscious values Voyage and Return whole wife Wise Old woman young