The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - 20th Anniversary Edition by Booker, Christopher

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - 20th Anniversary Edition

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether...
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Author: Christopher Booker
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - 20th Anniversary Edition by Booker, Christopher

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - 20th Anniversary Edition

$67.93

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - 20th Anniversary Edition

$67.93
Author: Christopher Booker
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Christopher Booker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Published: 09/10/2024
Pages: 736
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.02w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781399415927

About the Author
Christopher Booker was a founding editor of Private Eye, to which he regularly contributed, and also wrote a longstanding column for the Sunday Telegraph. His bestselling books include The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, The Real Global Warming Disaster, The Great Deception, The Mad Officials, Scared to Death and The Neophiliacs. Booker died in July 2

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