The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
Autor Mr Christopher Bookeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 iul 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472976185
ISBN-10: 1472976185
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 58 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472976185
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 58 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Christopher Booker writes for the Sunday Telegraph and is the bestselling author of The Seven Basic Plots, The Real Global Warming Disaster, The Great Deception and Scared to Death (all published by Bloomsbury Continuum). He has been an author and journalist for nearly 50 years, and was the founding editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye.
Cuprins
Introduction and historical notesPART ONE: THE SEVEN GATEWAYS TO THE UNDERWORLD1 Overcoming the Monster2 The Monster (II) and the Thrilling Escape from Death3 Rages to Riches4 The Quest5 Voyage and Return6 Comedy7 Comedy (II): The Plot Disguised8 Tragedy (I): The Five Stages9 Tragedy (II): The Divided Self10 Tragedy (III): The Hero as Monster11 Rebirth12 The Dark Power: From Shadow into LightEpilogue to Part One: The Rule of Three (the role played in stories by numbers)PART TWO: THE COMPLETE HAPPY ENDINGPrologue to Part Two13 The Dark Figures14 Seeing Whole: The Feminine and Masculine Values15 The Perfect Balance16 The Unrealised Value17 The Archetypal Family Drama (Continued)18 The Light Figures19 Reaching the Goal20 The Fatal FlawPART THREE: MISSING THE MARK21 The Ego Takes Over (I): Enter the Dark Inversion22 The Ego Takes Over (II): The Dark and Sentimental Versions23 The Ego Takes Over (III): Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy24 The Ego Takes Over (IV): Tragedy and Rebirth25 Losing the Plot: Thomas Hardy - A Case History26 Going Nowhere: The Passive Ego. The Twentieth-Century Dead End - From Chekhov to Close Encounters27 Why Sex and Violence? The Active Ego. The Twentieth-Century Obsession: From de Sade to The Terminator28 Rebellion Against 'The One': From Job to Nineteen Eighty-Four29 The Mystery30 The Riddle of the Sphinx: Oedipus and HamletPART FOUR: WHY WE TELL STORIES31 Telling Us Who We Are: Ego versus Instinct32 Into the Real World: The Ruling Consciousness33 Of Gods and Men: Reconnecting with 'The One'34 The Age of Loki: The Dismantling of the SelfEpilogue: The Light and the Shadows on the WallAuthor's Personal NoteGlossary of TermsBibliography Index of Stories CitedGeneral Index
Recenzii
....remarkable parallels between the structure of the modern film Jaws and that of the Old English Beowulf.
If you have any interest in fiction and the way it works, you will enjoy this exploration of the seven basic plots and how they have been adapted and developed across the centuries.
This magisterial volume really does offer readers a genuinely fresh and exciting perspective on virtually every tale ever told.
Fantastically entertaining
This book...has mind-expanding properties. Not only for anyone interested in literature, but also for those fascinated by wider questions of how human beings organise their societies and explain the outside world to their inmost selves, it is fascinating.
Christopher Booker's mammoth account of plot types, archetypes, their role in literary history and where Western culture has gone horribly wrong.
His prose is a model of clarity, and his lively enthusiasm for fictions of every description is infectious...The Seven Basic Plots is...one of the most diverting works on storytelling I've ever encountered.
This is the most extraordinary, exhilarating book. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation. Booker now interprets the mind of God, and analyses not just the novel - which will never to me be quite the same again - but puts the narrative of contemporary human affairs into a new perspective. If it took its author a lifetime to write, one can only feel gratitude that he did it.
An enormous piece of work...nothing less than the story of all stories. And an extraordinary tale it is ... Booker ranges over vast tracts of literature, drawing together the plots of everything from Beowulf to Bond, from Sophocles to soap opera, from Homer to Homer Simpson, to show the underlying parallels in stories from what appear to be the most disparate sources. If stories are about "what happens next", this book sets out to show that the answer is always "the same things", then to explain why. I found it absolutely fascinating.
This is literally an incomparable book, because there is nothing to compare it with. It goes to the heart of man's cultural evolution through the stories we have told since storytelling began. It illuminates our nature, our beliefs and our collective emotions by shining a bright light on them from a completely new angle. Original, profound, fascinating - and on top of it all, a really good read.
I have been quite bowled over by Christopher Booker's new book. It is so well planned with an excellent beginning and the contrasts and comparisons throughout are highly entertaining as well as informative and most original - and always extremely readable.
Booker's knowledge and understanding of imaginative literature is unrivalled, his essays on the great authors both illuminating and stimulating. This is a truly important book, an accolade often bestowed and rarely deserved in our modern age.
...some splendid links between story and reality...enjoyably provocative
It's hard not to admire the commitment of any writer whose book has taken 34 years to evolve. And there can be no doubting that Christopher Booker's 700-page, exhaustive examination of "Why we tell stories" - the book's subtitle - is a labour of love.
one of the most brilliant books of recent years
If you have any interest in fiction and the way it works, you will enjoy this exploration of the seven basic plots and how they have been adapted and developed across the centuries.
This magisterial volume really does offer readers a genuinely fresh and exciting perspective on virtually every tale ever told.
Fantastically entertaining
This book...has mind-expanding properties. Not only for anyone interested in literature, but also for those fascinated by wider questions of how human beings organise their societies and explain the outside world to their inmost selves, it is fascinating.
Christopher Booker's mammoth account of plot types, archetypes, their role in literary history and where Western culture has gone horribly wrong.
His prose is a model of clarity, and his lively enthusiasm for fictions of every description is infectious...The Seven Basic Plots is...one of the most diverting works on storytelling I've ever encountered.
This is the most extraordinary, exhilarating book. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation. Booker now interprets the mind of God, and analyses not just the novel - which will never to me be quite the same again - but puts the narrative of contemporary human affairs into a new perspective. If it took its author a lifetime to write, one can only feel gratitude that he did it.
An enormous piece of work...nothing less than the story of all stories. And an extraordinary tale it is ... Booker ranges over vast tracts of literature, drawing together the plots of everything from Beowulf to Bond, from Sophocles to soap opera, from Homer to Homer Simpson, to show the underlying parallels in stories from what appear to be the most disparate sources. If stories are about "what happens next", this book sets out to show that the answer is always "the same things", then to explain why. I found it absolutely fascinating.
This is literally an incomparable book, because there is nothing to compare it with. It goes to the heart of man's cultural evolution through the stories we have told since storytelling began. It illuminates our nature, our beliefs and our collective emotions by shining a bright light on them from a completely new angle. Original, profound, fascinating - and on top of it all, a really good read.
I have been quite bowled over by Christopher Booker's new book. It is so well planned with an excellent beginning and the contrasts and comparisons throughout are highly entertaining as well as informative and most original - and always extremely readable.
Booker's knowledge and understanding of imaginative literature is unrivalled, his essays on the great authors both illuminating and stimulating. This is a truly important book, an accolade often bestowed and rarely deserved in our modern age.
...some splendid links between story and reality...enjoyably provocative
It's hard not to admire the commitment of any writer whose book has taken 34 years to evolve. And there can be no doubting that Christopher Booker's 700-page, exhaustive examination of "Why we tell stories" - the book's subtitle - is a labour of love.
one of the most brilliant books of recent years