Greetings, all -- Allow me to quote from Pamela's excellent suggestion of a few months ago that we read James Wood's "How Fiction Works". In the initial pages, Wood quotes, in turn, Henry James:
There is only one recipe - to care a great deal for the cookery I believe this suggests that indeed we are likely (bound? in all its meanings) to find common themes. I'm unaware of a companion text on "How Fact Works", which could mean that it's somehow different if we're talking IRL, as the kids say. - Claiborne - On Apr 23, 2011, at 22:31, Leigh Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > Shouldn't Love be on this list, even though it has context as a subset > of at least comedies and tragedies? > > Leigh > > On 23 Apr 2011 at 08:40 PM, Jochen Fromm related >> Can everything ever written boiled down to a few fundamental stories? >> Christopher Booker argues in his book >> "Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories " >> that everything can be classified by just seven plots: >> >> 1. Overcoming the monster >> 2. Rags to riches >> 3. A journey - the quest >> 4. A journey - the voyage and return >> 5. Comedies >> 6. Tragedies >> 7. Rebirth >> >> Or is there just one: "there once was a problem, and it got resolved" >> which >> includes all detective and adventure stories - "there once was something >> to find out, and someone did it". What do you think? Can life really be >> distilled to a few basic stories? >> >> -J. >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
