The seven basic plots
Subtitle: why we tell stories
By: by Christopher Booker.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 728
Subjects: Plots (Drama, novel, etc.); Literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
Genres: Stories, plots, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1: The seven gateways to the underworld.  Prologue to part one; title: Overcoming the monster; title: The monster (II) and the thrilling escape from death; title: Rags to riches; title: The quest; title: Voyage and return; title: Comedy; title: Comedy (II) : the plot disguised; title: Tragedy (I) : the five stages; title: Tragedy (II) : the divided self; title: Tragedy (III) : the hero as monster; title: Rebirth; title: The dark power : from shadow into light; title: Epilogue to part 1 : the rule of three (the role played in stories by numbers); title: pt. 2: The complete happy ending.  Prologue to part two; title: The dark figures; title: Seeing whole : the feminine and masculine values; title: The perfect balance; title: The unrealised value; title: The archetypal family drama (continued); title: The light figures; title: Reaching the goal; title: The fatal flaw; title: pt. 3: Missing the mark.  The ego takes over (I) : enter the dark inversion; title: The ego takes over (II) : the dark and sentimental versions; title: The ego takes over (III) : quest, voyage and return, comedy; title: The ego takes over (IV) : tragedy and rebirth; title: Losing the plot : Thomas Hardy, a case history; title: Going nowhere : the passive ego : the twentieth-century dead end, from Chekhov to Close encounters; title: Why sex and violence? : the active ego : the twentieth-century obsession : from de Sade to The terminator; title: Rebellion against "the one" : from Job to Nineteen eighty-four; title: The mystery; title: The riddle of the sphinx : Oedipus and Hamlet; title: pt. 4: Why we tell stories.  Telling us who we are : ego versus instinct; title: Into the real world : the ruling consciousness; title: Of gods and men : reconnecting with "the one"; title: The age of Loki : the dismantling of the self; title: Epilogue : the light and the shadows on the wall; title: Author's personal note; title: Glossary of terms.