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  2. Category:Short stories adapted into plays - Wikipedia

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    T. The Tale of Hongxian. The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu. Tale of the Transcendent Marriage of Dongting Lake. Toba Tek Singh (short story) The Turning (short story collection)

  3. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.

  4. Frame story - Wikipedia

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    A frame story is a literary device that acts as a convenient conceit to organize a set of smaller narratives, either devised by the author or taken from a previous stock of popular tales, slightly altered by the author for the purpose of the longer narrative. Sometimes a story within the main narrative encapsulates some aspect of the framing ...

  5. Trifles (play) - Wikipedia

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    A year after Trifles' success, Glaspell turned the play into a short story, retitling it "A Jury of Her Peers". Glaspell used third-person, limited-omniscient narration to express the point of view of Martha Hale. "A Jury of Her Peers" adds irony by "highlighting the impossibility of women facing such a jury at a time when women were ...

  6. List of short stories by Alice Munro - Wikipedia

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    06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009. 12 = Dear Life – 2012. Compilations. s96 = Selected Stories – 1996. s03 = No Love Lost – 2003. s04 = Vintage Munro – 2004. s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both with an ...

  7. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    Preceded by. The Great Deception. Followed by. Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming. The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories is a 2004 book by Christopher Booker containing a Jung -influenced analysis of stories and their psychological meaning. Booker worked on the book for 34 years. [1]

  8. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    List of story structures. A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film. There are different kinds of narrative structures worldwide, which have been hypothesized by critics, writers, and scholars over time.

  9. Fathers and Sons (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Fathers and Sons" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway published 1933, in the collection Winner Take Nothing. It later appeared in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories and The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories. The story is a personal narrative that follows the path of Nick Adams as he drives through his hometown with his son ...