The Secret Scaffolding of Story - Narrative Architecture and the Strange Machinery Behind Every Tale #993565

What if plot isn’t the fundamental structure of story?
In The Secret Scaffolding of Story, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey proposes a new approach to narrative architecture built upon one deceptively simple principle: Plot is what happens. Story is how what happens changes relationships.
Moving beneath familiar categories such as quest, tragedy, comedy, mystery, and rebirth, Rey identifies the smaller relational changes from which stories are constructed: beginning and ending, becoming and belonging, joining and leaving, revealing and hiding, rising and falling, giving and taking, securing and breaking, replacing and restoring, reversing and returning, and repeating or breaking a pattern.
Drawing upon literature, mythology, religion, folklore, film, politics, ritual, and psychology, the book gives writers, critics, scholars, and serious readers a practical grammar for understanding why stories move us and how narrative meaning is built.