Seven Layers of Story

For convenience, I am pinning this post to the top of my home page, so that readers interested in my monograph on ‘Seven Layers of Story’ can read the individual chapters in the right order. Here are the links:

1. A Critical Problem
2. Translation, Adaptation, and the Layered Model
3. The OSI Model and the Story Model
4. The Formal Layer: Delivering the text
5. The Perceptual Layer: In the mind’s ear
6. The Syntactic Layer: Diction, prose, and poetry
7. The Semantic Layer: Figures of speech and mind
8. The Diegetic Layer: A stage for the imagination
9. The Immersive Layer: Views from the inside
10. The Apperceptive Layer: Spirits of tales past
11. How Story Happens