Spaz on Writing: Story Structure Part 1 - Theory, or WTF even IS a “Story”?! VIDEO
Gonna need multiple videos to explain story structure. First, some basic boring narrative theory. Sorry for the lack of jokes this time: not feeling it this week, and kinda burned through ‘em all in the humor vid.
Resources:
-Marie-Laure Ryan’s writings on Narrative Theory (unfortunately, I could not find “Toward a Definition of Narrative Theory,” but she’s got so much more available): https://www.marilaur.info/narr.htm
-A similar paper by Ryan: http://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/mediumtheory/marielaureryan.htm
-The Living Handbook of Narratology, which contains articles by Ryan, Herman, and Fludernik: https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/contents.html
-Narrative Theory guide by Dr Ismail S. Talib: https://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellibst/narrativetheory/
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