Kurt Vonnegut on 8 'shapes' of stories
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Big Think EdgeFollow UsThe American author said he attempted to bring scientific thinking to literary criticism, but received "very little gratitude for this."Stories have very simple shapes, ones that computers can understand.This was the basic idea behind the master's thesis that Kurt Vonnegut submitted to the anthropology department at the University of Chicago. "I have tried to bring scientific thinking to literary criticism, and there has been very little gratitude for this," Vonnegut joked during a lecture at Case Western Reserve University in 2004.The system involves two axes: the Y-axis represents good and bad fortune, the X-axis represents the beginning and end of a story.
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