Morphology of the Folktale¶
Propp, V. (1928). Morphology of the Folktale. Academia, Leningrad.
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- Structuralism
- Working over a corpus of Russian fairy tales drawn from Afanasyev's collection, Propp found that beneath enormous surface variety — different heroes, villains, objects, and settings — the tales are generated by a small fixed inventory: 31 narrative "functions" (a villainy, a departure, a test, a struggle, a return, and so on) that always appear in the same relative order though no single tale uses all of them, distributed across just seven "spheres of action" or character roles (hero, villain, donor, helper, and the rest)
This sourcePropp's morphology of the folktale, in which the tale's 'spheres of action' are distributed among the characters.
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“concerning the distribution of the [spheres of action] among the characters.”
- Working over a corpus of Russian fairy tales drawn from Afanasyev's collection, Propp found that beneath enormous surface variety — different heroes, villains, objects, and settings — the tales are generated by a small fixed inventory: 31 narrative "functions" (a villainy, a departure, a test, a struggle, a return, and so on) that always appear in the same relative order though no single tale uses all of them, distributed across just seven "spheres of action" or character roles (hero, villain, donor, helper, and the rest)
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