The seven basic plots: why we tell stories

by Booker, Christopher

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[This book] provides [an] answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world. Using ... 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.-Dust jacket

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  • Full title :The seven basic plots : why we tell stories / by Christopher Booker.

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[This book] provides [an] answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world. Using ... 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.-Dust jacket

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  • Publication Date:2005.

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Originally published: London; New York : Continuum, ©2004.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 audio disc ; : 4 3/4 in.

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocm62320000
  • Dewey Decimal:809.924

Table of Contents

Seven gateways to the underworld: Overcoming the monster; Monster (II) and the thrilling escape from death; Rags to riches; Quest; Voyage and return; Comedy; Comedy (II), the plot disguised; Tragedy (I), the five stages; Tragedy (II), the divided self; Tragedy (III), the hero as monster; Rebirth; Dark power, from shadow into light; Epilogue to part 1, the rule of three (the role played in stories by numbers) -- Complete happy ending: Dark figures; Seeing whole, the feminine and masculine values; Perfect balance; Unrealised value; Archetypal family drama (continued); Light figures; Reaching the goal; Fatal flaw -- Missing the mark: Ego takes over (I), enter the dark inversion; Ego takes over (II), the dark and sentimental versions; Ego takes over (III), quest, voyage and return, comedy; Ego takes over (IV), tragedy and rebirth; Losing the plot, Thomas Hardy, a case history; Going nowhere, the passive ego, the twentieth-century dead end, from Chekhov to Close encounters; Why sex and violence?, the active ego, the twentieth-century obsession, from de Sade to The terminator; Rebellion against "the one", from Job to Nineteen eighty-four; Mystery; Riddle of the sphinx, Oedipus and Hamle…

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Subjects

Intrigues (Théâtre, roman, etc.) Literature Literature -- Stories, plots, etc Littérature -- Histoires, intrigues, etc Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) Stories, plots, etc

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Booker, Christopher

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