Timeline for How to write a story without conflict, like "My Neighbour Totoro"?
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| Jun 19, 2018 at 23:31 | history | edited | whereswalden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarify difference between kishōtenketsu and freytag structure/3 act structure
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| Jun 19, 2018 at 21:03 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Seems like a translation of the concept of the three act story structure. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 7:54 | comment | added | Maciej | @AlexanderJ93 'we' learn to digest [...]? Maybe You do, but generalizing this to others is a risky proposition. Taking wrong perspective will invariably either make the story (much) more shallow or not work at all. Sure, some people do that. I stay by my -opinion- that doing this makes no sense. I, personally, find learning new languages, cultures and philosophies very rewarding, and analyzing a work in its proper cultural context is a part of that process. Also sorry, but I don not find Kishotenketsu and Freytag's piramid all that similar. Alas, this is not the place for this discussion. | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 16:32 | comment | added | Alex Jones | @Empischon The analysis of a story does not necessarily need to be done from the same perspective as its creation. In particular, we "learn" to digest stories in the way that they are written and analyzed in our own culture, so when we view media from other cultures, we will see them from our own perspective. Asking how this story works as viewed by a westerner almost necessarily merits a western-style analysis. Also worth noting are the similarities between kishotenketsu and the Freytag structure; the cultural lenses in this case are not very different. | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 11:24 | comment | added | Maciej | I think this is the greatest answer - analyzing a Japanesee work through lenses of western culture (like other answers and indeed the OP try to do) makes completely no sense. Instead, one has to use lenses of the place where the story originated. | |
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| Jun 17, 2018 at 23:09 | history | answered | whereswalden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |