文学の７つの基本プロット The Seven Basic Plots : Why We Tell Stories

Booker, Christopher

Continuum Intl Pub Group（2006/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 736 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826480378
• DDC分類 809.924

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. His material ranges from PG Wodehouse and The Marx Brothers to science fiction, from Sherlock Holmes to Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Full Description

Breathtaking in its scope and originality, "Seven Basic Plots" examines the basis of story telling in literature, film, and libretto. No one will ever see stories in the same way again. 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.

Contents

Introduction and Historical Note; Part OneUnderworld; Part Two: The Complete Happy Ending; Part Three: Missing the Mark; Part Four: Why We Tell Stories; Epilogue.