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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... whole libraries – full of such items as'Three Hundred and Forty Five Variants of Cinderalla, Catskin and Cap O'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with discussion of Mediaeval Analogues and Notes'; or 'Tom-Tit-Tot: A Comparative Essay on ...
... whole libraries – full of such items as'Three Hundred and Forty Five Variants of Cinderalla, Catskin and Cap O'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with discussion of Mediaeval Analogues and Notes'; or 'Tom-Tit-Tot: A Comparative Essay on ...
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... whole of their extraordinary significance in our lives . One of the few general texts ever to have been written on stories was Aristotle's Poetics , left unfinished well over 2000 years ago , It was Aristotle who first observed that a ...
... whole of their extraordinary significance in our lives . One of the few general texts ever to have been written on stories was Aristotle's Poetics , left unfinished well over 2000 years ago , It was Aristotle who first observed that a ...
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... whole vision . ' Denniston grabs at a crucifix , as at a ' magic weapon ' : two servants rush in , and feel ' something ' passing them out of the room . Denniston destroys the drawing ; the ' monster ' is overcome and appears no more ...
... whole vision . ' Denniston grabs at a crucifix , as at a ' magic weapon ' : two servants rush in , and feel ' something ' passing them out of the room . Denniston destroys the drawing ; the ' monster ' is overcome and appears no more ...
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... whole planet. This is where the Dark Lord Vader is holding the Princess prisoner. Even as they approach, this monstrous engine of death pulverises Alderaan, including the Princess's father, to atoms.At the same time, the hero and his ...
... whole planet. This is where the Dark Lord Vader is holding the Princess prisoner. Even as they approach, this monstrous engine of death pulverises Alderaan, including the Princess's father, to atoms.At the same time, the hero and his ...
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... 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 general aspect of the way stories are constructed, and the way in which we all ...
... 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 general aspect of the way stories are constructed, and the way in which we all ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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