Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Masterplots; ... Plots in Story Form from the World's Fine Literature
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Masterplots
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Masterplots
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages :
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Masterplots
Author: FRANK N. (ED.) MAGILL
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Seven Basic Plots
Author: Christopher Booker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441116516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441116516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
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.
Masterplots: The four series in eight volumes; two thousand and ten plot stories and essay reviews from the world's fine literature
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Masterplots; Combined Edition
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Masterplots, Five Hundred Plot-stories and Essay-reviews from the World's Fine Literature
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Thirty-six Dramatic Situations
Author: Georges Polti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
20 Master Plots and How to Build Them
Author: Ronald Tobias
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book shows the reader how to take timeless storytelling structures and make them immediate, now, for fiction that's universal in how it speaks to the reader's heart and contemporary in detail and impact.Each chapter includes brief excerpts and descriptions of fiction from many times, many genres - myth and fairy tale, genre and mainstream fiction, film plots of all types, short story and novel.Find 20 fundamental plots that recur through all fiction - with analysis and examples - that outline benefits and warnings, for writers to adapt and elaborate in their own fiction.Ronald B. Tobias has spent his career as a writer moving from genre to genre, first as a short story writer, then as an author of fiction and nonfiction books and finally as a writer and producer of documentaries for public television. He is currently a professor in the Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University and the author of the Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book shows the reader how to take timeless storytelling structures and make them immediate, now, for fiction that's universal in how it speaks to the reader's heart and contemporary in detail and impact.Each chapter includes brief excerpts and descriptions of fiction from many times, many genres - myth and fairy tale, genre and mainstream fiction, film plots of all types, short story and novel.Find 20 fundamental plots that recur through all fiction - with analysis and examples - that outline benefits and warnings, for writers to adapt and elaborate in their own fiction.Ronald B. Tobias has spent his career as a writer moving from genre to genre, first as a short story writer, then as an author of fiction and nonfiction books and finally as a writer and producer of documentaries for public television. He is currently a professor in the Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University and the author of the Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.