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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... lost , they manage to push her into her own oven and burn her to death , finding , as their reward , a great treasure with which they can triumphantly return home . Jack climbs his magic beanstalk to discover at the top a new world ...
... lost , they manage to push her into her own oven and burn her to death , finding , as their reward , a great treasure with which they can triumphantly return home . Jack climbs his magic beanstalk to discover at the top a new world ...
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... lost and he is at their mercy . Then a miracle takes place . A shot rings out from across the street , and a third villain lies dead . At the last minute Amy has jumped off the train and returned to town , and she is standing at a ...
... lost and he is at their mercy . Then a miracle takes place . A shot rings out from across the street , and a third villain lies dead . At the last minute Amy has jumped off the train and returned to town , and she is standing at a ...
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... lost and that his destruction is inevitable , he makes a miraculous escape . Always it is only in the nick of time , just when all seems lost , that Luke Skywalker escapes from the final deadly assault by Darth Vader ; that Quatermass ...
... lost and that his destruction is inevitable , he makes a miraculous escape . Always it is only in the nick of time , just when all seems lost , that Luke Skywalker escapes from the final deadly assault by Darth Vader ; that Quatermass ...
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... lost the 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 ...
... lost the 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 ...
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... lost brother . Aladdin's new ' uncle ' makes a great show of 4. We may note that when The Benny Goodman Story came to be made in 1956 , the real - life event on which the scriptwriters chose to conclude the story , the Carnegie Hall ...
... lost brother . Aladdin's new ' uncle ' makes a great show of 4. We may note that when The Benny Goodman Story came to be made in 1956 , the real - life event on which the scriptwriters chose to conclude the story , the Carnegie Hall ...
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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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