Morphology of the fairy tale. Historical roots of the fairy tale
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Morphology of the fairy tale. Historical roots of the fairy tale
14.99 €
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp is an outstanding Russian philologist, professor at Leningrad University. One of the founders of the structural-typological approach in folklore studies, which later found wide application in literary criticism. Propp's works on the study of folklore ("Morphology of the Tale", "Historical Roots of the Magic Tale", "Russian Heroic Epos", "Russian Agrarian Holidays") entered the golden fund of world science of the twentieth century.
In the books devoted to the fairy tale, V. Ya. Propp rejects traditional approaches to the study of the phenomena of oral folklore and turns first to the analysis of the structural elements of the genre, and then to its origins, establishing a typological similarity between the fairy tale and initiation rites. As the scientist himself wrote, "Morphology" and "Historical Roots" are like two parts or two volumes of one large work. The second follows directly from the first, the first is the premise of the second. I move, as strictly as possible, methodically and consistently, from the scientific description of phenomena and facts to the explanation of their historical causes." In many ways ahead of his time, the works of V. Ya. Propp became classics of humanitarian studies and have not lost their relevance to this day.
In the books devoted to the fairy tale, V. Ya. Propp rejects traditional approaches to the study of the phenomena of oral folklore and turns first to the analysis of the structural elements of the genre, and then to its origins, establishing a typological similarity between the fairy tale and initiation rites. As the scientist himself wrote, "Morphology" and "Historical Roots" are like two parts or two volumes of one large work. The second follows directly from the first, the first is the premise of the second. I move, as strictly as possible, methodically and consistently, from the scientific description of phenomena and facts to the explanation of their historical causes." In many ways ahead of his time, the works of V. Ya. Propp became classics of humanitarian studies and have not lost their relevance to this day.
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