Freytag’s Pyramid:
Labov, W. Where shall I begin? In Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. In and A.N. D. Schiffrin, A. De Fina, ed., Telling Stories: Language, Narrative and Social Life. Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 2009.
Linde, Charlotte. 2010. Social Issues in the Understanding of Narrative. In 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, November 11, 2010 – November 13, 2010
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Short and useful: A summary of a lecture: http://www.david-campbell.org/
And here’s the podcast of the lecture itself: http://phonar.covmedia.co.uk/?
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Peter Guber , Four Truths of the Storyteller, Harvard Business Review, Dec. 1, 2007
“A well told story’s power to captivate and inspire people has been recognized for thousands of years. Peter Guber is in the business of creating compelling stories: He has headed several entertainment…”
Optional — counter-narrative:
http://www.clarku.edu/~
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Optional: Excellent collection of essays on journalistic storytelling, using the methods of fiction for non-fiction.
- Telling a more general story rooted in a specific instance — an image showing the structure of a story.
- Nieman Storyboard: Essays on Craft