Originality Beyond Novelty: Human Emotion, Narrative Pattern, and Genre Formation in Mythotechnic Fiction
Abstract
The proposition that no original stories exist begins with a valid observation and ends with an excessive conclusion. Human emotions, conflicts, archetypes, and narrative patterns recur across cultures and historical periods, but their recurrence does not establish that every story, literary construct, or genre has already existed.
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