Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)

• Render a Rule: The literary critical review is a protocol designed to summarize, judge, and contextualize a piece of art.
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The protocol is decoupled from the art entirely; the reviews generate the reality of the art through sheer authoritative assertion.
• Reveal a Human Insight: Bureaucratic or academic language is so powerful it can invent the very things it claims to be analyzing.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition: Literary critique. Climax: Reality dissolves.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale

• Narratemes: N/A.

6. Genette’s Narrative Discourse

• Order: Meta-fictional.

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey

• Subversions: N/A.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle

• The Take: The primary text.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet

• Pacing: N/A.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)

• Applicability: High.

11. The Three-Act Structure

• Plot Points: N/A.

12. The Corporate Vampire Arc (Stakeholders Custom)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.