There are literary theorists who propose that there are but a few basic stories in the world, perhaps little more or even less than can be counted on the fingers of both hands. Hence every novel -- or, for that matter, every story told by a movie or reported in a news event -- offers merely a different take on one or another of the same old basic tales. And even if one isn't so inclined toward literary analysis, or, on the other hand, schooled in Jungian theory, one can't help but notice that so many stories, from fact to fiction, seem to conform to... More >>>