The Structure of Story: Reading List
I recently gave a lecture on The Structure of Story at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design as a part of PRO-7232 Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II.
Many books and ideas were mentioned during the lecture and discussion. The students asked for a reading list. Here it is! Enjoy.
Story, Robert McKee
Character, Robert McKee
Into the Woods, John Yorke
Serious Noticing, James Wood
How Fiction Works, James Wood
Poetics, Aristotle (with translation and commentary by Stephen Halliwell)
Artificial Intelligence as a Framework for Understanding Intuition, Herbert Simon.
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unanswered Question, Leonard Bernstein
Just Enough Research, Erica Hall
Image, Music, Text, Roland Barthes
Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida
Writing and Difference, Jacques Derrida
Tell a Four-Word Story, James Buckhouse
The 2300-year-old Secret to Better Design, James Buckhouse