The Fairytale and Plot Structure

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-57543-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used, the reader or creative writer will obtain a much better understanding of many other types of fiction, including short stories, dramatic texts and Hollywood screenplays.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Terence Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Über Autor(innen)

Terence Patrick Murphy is Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the English Department at Yonsei University, South Korea. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Merton College, Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the history of the little magazine in England. He has published essays in such journals as the and. His major research interest is the stylistics of short fiction and the semiotics of film screenplays