9781472976185-1472976185-The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

ISBN-13: 9781472976185
ISBN-10: 1472976185
Author: Christopher Booker
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Paperback 736 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781472976185
ISBN-10: 1472976185
Author: Christopher Booker
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Paperback 736 pages

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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (ISBN-13: 9781472976185 and ISBN-10: 1472976185), written by authors Christopher Booker, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Words, Language & Grammar books. You can easily purchase or rent The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Words, Language & Grammar books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $5.22.

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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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