Vonnegut’s Shapes of Stories

September 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Scholarly Kitchen links to a video of the great Kurt Vonnegut diagraming the shapes of three common plots.

Unfortunately, the YouTube clip ends before Vonnegut diagrams Kafka and Shakespeare. For the full text, see “Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard,” Lapham’s Quarterly.

Good advice here for historians: scholars unstuck in time.

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About Zachary Schrag
Zachary M. Schrag is an associate professor of history at George Mason University.

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