The Story Changes
by Shi Aidong
About This Novel
Story changes include three aspects: 1. Stories, as folk prose narratives passed down orally, mutate anytime and anywhere; 2. Story mutation is not arbitrary mutation, but manifests as relatively stable "limited variation" of core elements and gradual "displacement" of detail replacement; 3. Variation is regular, and story variation is restricted by factors such as oral tradition, time and space environment, memory bias, and even popular culture, and has characteristics such as emotionality, patterning, and adaptability. This book borrows the concept of "machine change" (adaptive "change") to summarize the directional (non-arbitrary) variation characteristics of story communication and reconstruction. Starting from various aspects such as classic review, diachronic review, and theoretical reflection, we discuss the rules of how stories change with "chance"; and through empirical research such as field trips, communication experiments, and memory experiments, we specifically discuss the "chance" and "change" of stories as they adapt to changing circumstances.
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