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Into the woods : how stories work and why we tell them / John Yorke.

By: Yorke, John (Television producer) [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2014Description: xvii, 309 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141978109 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) | Motion picture authorship -- Philosophy | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 809.9'24 Summary: 'Into The Woods' is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke. We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from them. But what is a story? Hundreds of books about screenwriting and storytelling have been written, but none of them ask 'Why?' Why do we tell stories? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way?
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Originally published: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Into The Woods' is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke. We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from them. But what is a story? Hundreds of books about screenwriting and storytelling have been written, but none of them ask 'Why?' Why do we tell stories? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way?

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