Title Statements
- Full title :The seven basic plots : why we tell stories / by Christopher Booker.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2004.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 728 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780826480378, 0826452094, 9780826452092, 0826480373
- oclc:on1060749290
- LC Classification:809.924 BOOKE
- Dewey Decimal:809/.924
Table of Contents
pt. 1: The seven gateways to the underworld. Prologue to part one -- Overcoming the monster -- The monster (II) and the thrilling escape from death -- Rags to riches -- The 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 -- The dark power : from shadow into light -- Epilogue to part 1 : the rule of three (the role played in stories by numbers) -- pt. 2: The complete happy ending. Prologue to part two -- The dark figures -- Seeing whole : the feminine and masculine values -- The perfect balance -- The unrealised value -- The archetypal family drama (continued) -- The light figures -- Reaching the goal -- The fatal flaw -- pt. 3: Missing the mark. The ego takes over (I) : enter the dark inversion -- The ego takes over (II) : the dark and sentimental versions -- The ego takes over (III) : quest, voyage and return, comedy -- The 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? …
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