Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)#

• Render a Rule:
• Rehearse a Failure Mode:
• Reveal a Human Insight:

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)#

• Subject:
• Object:
• Sender (Destinator):
• Receiver (Destinatee):
• Helper:
• Opponent:

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model#

• See YAML Frontmatter for stage breakdown.

4. The Freytag Pyramid#

• Exposition:
• Climax:

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale#

• Applicable Narratemes:

6. Genette's Narrative Discourse#

• Order / Duration / Focalization:

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey#

• Subversions:

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle#

• The Take (The Price Paid):

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet#

• Pacing Deviations:

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)#

• Applicability:

11. The Three-Act Structure#

• Plot Points:

12. Lévi-Strauss's Binary Oppositions#

• Primary Binary:
• Secondary Binary:
• The Mediator:

13. Cognitive Estrangement (Suvin / Shklovsky)#

• The Familiar Concept:
• The Estranging Mechanism:
• The Cognitive Shift:

14. Bakhtin's Chronotope#

• The Spatial Matrix:
• The Temporal Flow:
• The Point of Intersection:

15. Aristotelian Poetics#

• Hamartia:
• Peripeteia:
• Anagnorisis:

16. Jungian Archetypal Analysis#

• The Persona:
• The Shadow:
• The Anima/Animus:
• The Trickster:

17. Genette's Transtextuality#

• Intertextuality:
• Paratextuality:
• Metatextuality: