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		Polti was inspired by an (unreferenced) quote that states a prior academician named Gozzi "maintained that there can be but thirty-six tragic situations." Polti says in his introduction that he wondered if that was true, and set to prove or disprove it.
		Polti would argue that the three categories I described in the last paragraph are too broad, but I can counter that his categories are similarly too broad or too narrow.
		Reading Polti, one does not walk away with a clear vision of how to write a story, construct a plot, or even develop a meaningful dramatic situation.
	www.glassner.com /andrew/art/drama/screen/polti.htm (738 words)

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		Georges Polti, a French writer from the mid-19th century, examined some 1,200 works of literature and produced a list of 36 dramatic situations which, in some combination or variation, he suggested were all that could be found in these works.
		In Polti’s case, suppose every novel used only four of his situations, the number of combinations of 36 situations taken four at a time is 58,905.
		By the time you, Polti, or I had finished reading those novels, we would have forgotten the combination used in the first novel, and if we reread it, it would again be novel to us.
	www.modelingandsimulation.org /issue10/aisimulation.html (1737 words)

	The greatest stories ever told - smh.com.au
		Georges Polti (19th-century French literary critic) declared there were "exactly 36 dramatic situations...
		An individual is called on a quest, meets a mentor and various allies on the road, fights enemies before confronting the ultimate evil, goes through a symbolic death and resurrection, and eventually brings back "the elixir" to save the tribe.
		Polti's book is eccentric: "I hear myself accused, with much violence, of an intent to 'kill imagination'.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/06/1031115933686.html (2111 words)

	The Pulp Companion: Georges Polti's "36 Dramatic Situations"
		Georges Polti didn’t mean to set the world on fire.
		Polti’s 36 Dramatic Situations appeared in English around 1920, and it caused an immediate sensation.
		Polti’s lists of situations (and discussions of them) can be found on the Internet.
	thepulp.net /PulpCompanion/03summer/polti.html (330 words)

	13 Dramatic DM Points
		Polti was a mid 19th century French theatre critic.
		The life and times of Georges Polti is a bit foggy, too; my search found disagreement on the first date of publication of 36 Dramatic Situations.
		Georges said the list is simply an aid for writers.
	www.rayjutkins.com /ezine/20040824.html (1787 words)

	Georges Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations
		Georges Polti was a 19th century French writer described 36 situations that may be found in many stories, based on the list identified by Goethe who said it was originated by Italian Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806).
		Perhaps some of the themes and examples do betray a bias towards the stories of the day, yet they are still very useful stimuli and provide interesting examples of enduring and real human dilemmas.
		Although this has been taken as definitive by some and Polti initially said there was 'exactly 36 dramatic situations...
	changingminds.org /disciplines/storytelling/plots/polti_situations/polti_situations.htm (175 words)

	Writing Formulas as Guides
		Georges Polti (1868-?), author of The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, postulates that there are 36, and only 36, dramatic situations upon which all plots are based.
		Polti feels that a singular corollary is attached: that there are in life but 36 emotions.
		In the book, Polti goes into detail about the situations, mentioning examples and nuances under each, showing the many facets that a single dramatic situation can take.
	www.delamar.org /gwformulas.htm (644 words)

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		Yet when Polti or someone says there are X basic situations, somehow we think that means there are limits on the plots available.
		The thirty-six dramatic situations Georges Polti (1868-) (translated by Lucille Ray) Copyright 1977 (original copyright 1921) The Writer, Inc. Boston "...for there were indeed, as he [Gozzi] had indicated, thirty-six categories which I had to formulate in order to distribute fitly among them the innumerable dramas awaiting classification.
		I think Polti was trying to lay out the basic categories, with some hints at the finer divisions, within which we might fit the pieces of all literature.
	web.mit.edu /mbarker/www/writers/t025518.txt (595 words)

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		Allegedly the number is either 36 or 37, and the book is a "French book published in 1916 as "The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations" by Georges Polti".
		Polti (and others who have done the same) have chosen to include certain facts in their boiled-down plot summaries, but not others.
		For instance, he might describe the main plot of Hamlet as an example of III.A.1, "the avenging of a slain parent or ancestor," which highlights the fact that Hamlet's father was killed and vengeance is demanded.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/10031 (1274 words)

	Medical Books [Cheap & Discounted] \| Medical School Chat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is Polti's contention that these tableaus, or "dramatic situations", amount to no more than 36 in number.
		Legend has it that Georges Polti heard that there were 36 possible plots, and set about creating a list of plots to match the 36.
		George Lucas was highly influenced by Joseph Campbell, and the famed Bill Moyers interviews were conducted on Skywalker Ranch.
	www.medschoolchat.com /medical_book_0766133206.html (1064 words)

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		Georges Polti, 19th century French author, identified 36 possible plots in literature that would hold the attention of the audience with the right amount of tension and subsequent resolution.
		Those rules existed before Polti identified them but by identifying them he helped writers become creative within guidelines that would help them connect with their audiences.
		All Polyphonic HMI has done is identify parameters in music in much the same way that Polti identified parameters in story lines and because music is more complicated than a story line it takes pattern recognizing computers to do it.
	www.focusmarketing.us /music/hitsonganalysisfaq.htm (3499 words)

	The Straight Dope: What are the seven basic literary plots?
		Tobias is mum on what the 69 plots were, but on the assumption that half were variations on Taking Up the White Man's Burden, I'd say this is one we can safely pass by.
		Attributed to Carlo Gozzi and reprised by Georges Polti in The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (1917).
		Polti's somewhat daft exegesis states stating that there are precisely 36 emotions, which in some unclear manner are tied to the 36 situations.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/001124.html (751 words)

	Polti - Toseeka Search Results
		The Polti Steam System is known as a tile and grout cleaner.
		POLTI Spa - via Ferloni, 83 - 22070...
		Polti is one of the very few firms manufacturing entirely on their national...
	www.toseeka.com /websearch/Polti (298 words)

	Traumwind - The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Georges Polti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		All situations in any story or drama are supposed to fall into one of these categories.
		See Polti's book of the same name for explanations, examples, and variations.
		Various other longer categorisations have been made of such situations, and very comprehensive, extensive lists may be found in the various Motif Indices.
	traumwind.de /blog/?detail=2003-09-23_10-08 (124 words)

	enthusiasm » Blog Archive » The 37 Dramatic Situations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Exhaustive list of The 37 Dramatic Situations considered to be possible, according to Georges Polti.
		I used to hear that there were only seven basic stories, but then someone demonstrated in the Notes and Queries section of the Guardian that all seven were contained in the plot of Casablanca, and therefore there was only one story, and that story was Casablanca…
		This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2003 at 10:11 am and is filed under Art and Lit.
	www.nexistepas.com /enthuse/?p=1077 (442 words)

	Kevin Baldeosingh - The Evolution of Literature
		Literature therefore allows us to imaginatively learn or create strategies for dealing with situations we might encounter in the real world - or, at least, the real world of our evolutionary past.
		The scholar Georges Polti has listed 36 plots that underlie all fictional narratives.
		Most of the plots are defined by love or sex or a threat to the safety of the protagonist or his kin (e.g.
	www.caribscape.com /baldeosingh/literature/sober/2000/evolution.html (717 words)

	The Straight Dope: Why do golf balls have dimples?
		The approach I was working on was based on Georges Polti's classic "The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations."
		I had no trouble pointing out that the theme of The Brothers Karamazov is Polti's #3, Crime Pursued by Vengeance.
		But the job turns out to be harder than I had counted on, largely because the story line of Brothers is so complicated.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a930611.html (894 words)

	IMHOFAQ: Story-representation and AI
		In 1900, a French literary critic named Georges Polti published an analysis of literary plots entitled "The 36 Dramatic Situations" (reprinted 1977 by The Writer Inc, $8.95).
		Folklorists Vladimir Propp and Stith Thompson offered alternate approaches to the story-indexing problem, but Polti's remains the most useful for AI researchers, because (unlike Propp) it was constructed empirically ("bottom up") by surveying literature, and (unlike Thompson) it offers a manageable set of classes.
		Joyce, an avowed Aristotelian who is known to have owned Polti's book, found it necessary in his work to challenge fearlessly all the taboos of the literary censors.
	www.robotwisdom.com /ai/stories.html (1200 words)

	Amazon.com: Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations: Books: Georges Polti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Polti defines these 36 situations, including supplication, crime pursued by vengeance, revolt, the enigma, rivalry of kinsmen, etc.
		George Polti's book tells you about the inner workings of the thirty-six dramatic situations he claims to have found.
		According to him, the possible plots can be reduced to one of these situations or to a variation on them.
	amazon.com /Thirty-Six-Dramatic-Situations-Georges-Polti/dp/0766133206 (2071 words)

	The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance.
		He later said that the number 36 was not special, that other longer or shorter lists could also be made.
		The book was written in the 19th century; the original English translation was published in 1921 (Reprinted in 2003, w/ ISBN 0-7661-3320-6).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations (385 words)

	motifs Engl2332 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Georges Polti's 1868 book, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, may list the definitive number of dramatic plots.
		A reasoned discussion about Polti's work from an MIT student
		John Carroll's 2001 book, Western Dreaming: The Western World Is Dying For Want Of A Story offers the stories which serve as archetypes, narratives that shape society and answer its members' search for the meaning of life.
	www.accd.edu /SAC/english/mgarcia/2332/WrMotifs.htm (472 words)

	stormofthoughts's Xanga Site
		In 1917, Georges Polti published his work "The 36 Dramatic Situations," purporting to lay out the 36 core dramatic stories that exist.
		My goal, over the next year, is to write one story based on each of the dramatic situations.
		My fellow writers who read this blog are highly encouraged to at least glance at Polti's work, and to perhaps draw on them as I plan to.
	www.xanga.com /stormofthoughts (3437 words)

	Molecular theories of encounters
		This webpage is meant to aggregate Web resources about computer modeling of human encounters, especially those models that view encounters as 'molecules' built by combining instances of two or more personality types (the 'atoms').
		The range of models extends from the mechanistic to the literary, with our emphasis here mainly on the literary end, especially the theories of Georges Polti # and James Joyce #.
		Since we want this to move in the direction of more-literary storytelling, the encounters we want might be anticipated somewhat among Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations [qv]:
	www.robotwisdom.com /ai/molecular.html (1261 words)

	Georges Polti Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Georges Polti Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		"The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations" by Georges Polti is, as the title would suggest, a detailed examination of what the author believes to be all the possible situations that could occur in a drama.
		The reader may question the fact that there are only thirty-six, however this does not detract from what is a thorough examination of some common...
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Georges_Polti (235 words)

	Pixilating The Storyteller: The Computer as Storyteller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As soon as something has been found to have a quantifiable structure, it becomes readily available for computer modelling and simulation.
		Works such as The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, Morphology of the Folktale by Vladimir Propp and The 36 Dramatic Situations by Georges Polti proved suggestive of a paint-by-numbers approach to plot construction and therefore storytelling.
		So from 1973 with the work of S. Klein, various computer scientists have been developing plot generating software.
	www.glasswings.com.au /modern/pixil/comtel4.htm (274 words)

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		The American "most wanted" painting, for example, was a serene landscape, predominantly blue with large swaths of lake and sky, featuring people relaxing, some deer and George Washington.
		The digital age has simply opened up a new area for analysis: the bits and bytes that make up a song's digital DNA.
		McCready, the same is true of Hit Song Science.
	work.colum.edu /~amiller/algo.htm (813 words)

	The 36 Dramatic Situations
		In 1900, a French literary critic named Georges Polti published an analysis of literary plots entitled "The 36 Dramatic Situations".
		Polti also further subdivided each of the 36 (citing particular plays and novels that embodied each variant), and included for each an enumeration of the basic 'elements' needed for the plot, e.g.
		for Supplication: "The dynamic elements necessary are: a Persecutor, a Suppliant and a Power in authority, whose decision is doubtful" Here's a very rough re-sorting of Polti's thirtysix, according to a preliminary reworking of those elements:
	www.labyrinth.net.au /~saul/essays/06polti.html (206 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Subject: TECH: Anti-plots Something I have been playing with - Georges Polti lists a bunch of dramatic situations, but they are all negative.
		Just for fun, I was trying to fill in the positive versions of the situations.
		E.g., Polti Anti-Polti asking for help offering help rescue from trouble join in celebration?
	web.mit.edu /mbarker/www/writers/t029219.txt (168 words)

	Polyphonic HMI
		Every story that is writen, every movie made, from the blockbusters to the intellectual films generally follow these rules of plot.
		Polyphonic HMI has identified parameters in music in much the same way that Polti indentified parameters in storylines and since music is more complicated than a storyline it takes pattern recognizing computers to do it.
		Polyphonic did not invent the patterns, rather they existed anyway.
	www.polyphonichmi.com /hssfaq.html (3066 words)

	PoltiStories - FaerieMUD - Trac
		A book called The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations by a frenchman, Georges Polti, posits that there are only 36 possible plotlines for any story, and that all stories are a retelling of one or more of them.
		Despite the veracity (or lack thereof) of his theory, his "situations" are nonetheless useful for creating interesting plotlines for games.
		http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/stories.html - Some interesting ideas about how to use the Polti stories for AI.
	www.faeriemud.org /wiki/PoltiStories (117 words)

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