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13 de jun. de 2022 · Kurt Vonnegut wrote a master’s thesis on the shapes of stories that he submitted to the anthropology department at the University of Chicago, which rejected it. The late Indiana-born author said...
30 de out. de 2010 · Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the 'simple shapes of stories.' ...more.
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- David Comberg
Kurt Vonnegut gives a short, humorous lecture on the shape of stories.
Vonnegut came up with eight shapes in total, and claimed that every story ever told—from the oldest fairy tales to Shakespeare right up to works of 20th-century modernism—corresponded to one of his charts.
25 de mai. de 2018 · The Vermont researchers describe the six story shapes behind more than 1700 English novels as: 1. Rags to riches – a steady rise from bad to good fortune. 2. Riches to rags – a fall from...
11 de nov. de 2021 · He begins: “Stories have very simple shapes, ones that computers can understand.”. And then he goes on to do a little literary stand-up comedy, tracing the story arc of Hamlet , The Metamorphosis, and even Cinderella.
26 de nov. de 2012 · All the recent excitement reminded me of an old favorite, in which Vonnegut maps out the shapes of stories, with equal parts irreverence and perceptive insight, along the “G-I axis” of Good Fortune and Ill Fortune and the “B-E axis” of Beginning and Entropy.
