TY - BOOK AU - Yorke,John TI - Into the woods: how stories work and why we tell them SN - 9780141978109 (pbk.) : AV - PN151 .Y58 2014 U1 - 809.924 YOR PY - 2014/// CY - UK PB - Penguin Books KW - Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) KW - Motion picture authorship KW - Philosophy KW - Literature KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: 2013; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 'Into The Woods' is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke. We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from them. But what is a story? Hundreds of books about screenwriting and storytelling have been written, but none of them ask 'Why?' Why do we tell stories? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way? ER -