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strawberry69
Unregistered User
(10/11/03 4:43 am)
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Propp
Can anyone help me asap? I need to know anything and everything about Propp and narratology etc etc esp stuff to do with the essay 'The Morphology of the Folktale', i think its called (?) any links or ideas would be fab x x x
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Midori
Unregistered User
(10/12/03 6:26 pm)
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morphology of the folktale
This isn't really an essay--but a short book. It's worth getting it out of the library--you could read it in less time than you might spend hunting down explications of it. It is basically Propp's theory that folktales are structured in similar ways and that characters have different "functions" in the story--to help move the plot along. (this is really the short, short version). Do read it--it's not bad and the ideas are quite acessible.
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Andrey
Bobev
Registered User
(10/23/03 2:22 am)
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Re: morphology of the folktale
I think it's better to translate it as "fairy tales", because Prop investigates only tales about marvels, heroes, etc. No funny tales, no cumulating stories... And he's the author of another book on the same subject too - I don't know is it translated in English or not. Could be something like that: "The historical roots of the fairy tale". In that study he gives a much more detailed view on what he has only marked in the first. And there are some articles by Levy-Strauss (is it written this way?) on the "Morphology".
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Helen
Registered User
(10/23/03 6:39 am)
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Propp's 2nd (in English)...
... is _Theory and History of Folklore_, trans.Ariadna and Richard Martin. I believe that we've discussed Propp before ... it might not hurt to hunt through the archives a bit after you've read the book and gotten your thoughts together.
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