Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Seven Basic PlotsCondition: NewSubtitle: Why We Tell Stories - 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONISBN-10: 1399415921EAN: 9781399415927ISBN: 9781399415927Publisher: Bloomsbury ContinuumFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/18/2024Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 153mmAuthor: Christopher BookerContributor: Nick Booker (Foreword by)Genre: Literary CriticismTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, History, Language & ReferenceDescription: **20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION**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.Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Seven Basic Plots
Title: The Seven Basic Plots
Subtitle: Why We Tell Stories - 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
ISBN-10: 1399415921
EAN: 9781399415927
ISBN: 9781399415927
Release Date: 07/18/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Nick Booker (Foreword by)
Book Title: Seven Basic Plots : Why We Tell Stories-20th Anniversary Edition
Number of Pages: 736 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Comparative Literature, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 1.8 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Christopher Booker
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
