The seven basic plots why we tell stories
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum
2005
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| Edición: | Reprinted (twice) |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010555239708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1: The seven gateways to the underworld. Prologue to part one
- Overcoming the monster
- The monster (II) and the thrilling escape from death
- Rags to riches
- The quest
- Voyage and return
- Comedy
- Comedy (II) : the plot disguised
- Tragedy (I) : the five stages
- Tragedy (II) : the divided self
- Tragedy (III) : the hero as monster
- Rebirth
- The dark power : from shadow into light
- Epilogue to part 1 : the rule of three (the role played in stories by numbers)
- pt. 2: The complete happy ending. Prologue to part two
- The dark figures
- Seeing whole : the feminine and masculine values
- The perfect balance
- The unrealised value
- The archetypal family drama (continued)
- The light figures
- Reaching the goal
- The fatal flaw
- pt. 3: Missing the mark. The ego takes over (I) : enter the dark inversion
- The ego takes over (II) : the dark and sentimental versions
- The ego takes over (III) : quest, voyage and return, comedy
- The ego takes over (IV) : tragedy and rebirth
- Losing the plot : Thomas Hardy, a case history
- Going nowhere : the passive ego : the twentieth-century dead end, from Chekhov to Close encounters
- Why sex and violence? : the active ego : the twentieth-century obsession : from de Sade to The terminator
- Rebellion against "the one" : from Job to Nineteen eighty-four
- The mystery
- The riddle of the sphinx : Oedipus and Hamlet
- pt. 4: Why we tell stories. Telling us who we are : ego versus instinct
- Into the real world : the ruling consciousness
- Of gods and men : reconnecting with "the one"
- The age of Loki : the dismantling of the self
- Epilogue : the light and the shadows on the wall
- Author's personal note
- Glossary of terms.
