The science of storytelling (Record no. 23016)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-0008276973 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 808.3 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Storr, Will |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The science of storytelling |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | William Collins, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2020. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 297p., ind., 20 cm x 13 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Recommended by: Kallol Das |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | Contents:<br/><br/>hapter 1: Creating a world. -- Where does a story begin? -- Moments of change; the control-seeking brain -- Curiosity -- The model-making brain; how we read; grammar; filmic word order; simplicity; active versus passive language; specific detail; show-not-tell -- World-making in fantasy and science fiction -- The domesticated brain; theory of mind in animism and religion; how theory-of-mind mistakes create drama -- Salience; creating tension with detail -- Neural models; poetry; metaphor -- Cause and effect; literary versus mass-market storytelling -- Change is not enough -- Chapter 2: The flawed self. -- The flawed self; the theory of control -- Personality and plot -- Personality and setting -- Personality and point of view -- Cuture and character; western versus eastern story -- Anatomy of a flawed self; the ignition point -- Fictional memories; moral delusions; antagoinsts and moral idealism; antagonists and toxic self-esteem; the hero-maker narrative -- David and Goliath -- How flawed characters create meaning -- Chapter 3: The dramatic questions. -- Confabulation and the deluded character -- The two levels of story; how subconscious character struggle creates plot -- Modernist stories -- Wanting and needing -- Dialogue -- The roots of the dramatic question; social emotions; heroes and villains; moral outrage -- Status play -- King Lear; humiliation -- Stories as tribal propaganda -- Antiheroes; empathy -- Origin damage -- Chapter 4: Plots, endings and meaning. -- Goal directedness; video games; personal projects; eudaemonia; plots -- Plot as recipe versus plot as symphony of change -- The final battle -- Endings; control; the God moment -- Story as a simulacrum of consciousness; transportation -- The power of story -- The lesson of story -- The consolation of story -- Appendix: The sacred flaw approach. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| General subdivision | technique |
| -- | narration Rhetoric |
| -- | psychological aspects |
| -- | fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | KEIC | KEIC | 03/26/2025 | Amazon | 499.00 | AMD2-351012 | 1 | 808.3 STO | 23840 | 07/21/2025 | 07/16/2025 | 322.00 | 03/26/2025 | Books |