Morphology of the folk tale
About this book
Vladimir Propp was born in Petersburg, April 29, 1895. In 1932 he was called to a position at the University of Leningrad and went on to make major contributions to Russian folklore studies, comparative mythology, and the classification of folklore genres. His international fame is closely tied to the contributions he made to the structural analysis of folklore in Morphology of the Folktale. -- from back cover.
Subjects
Comparative and general GrammarFolk literatureGrammar, Comparative and generalMorphologyFairy talesClassificationTalesStructural analysisLiteraire structuurContes de féesVolksverhalenNarodnye russkie skazki (Afanasʹev, A.N.)Literatura AfricanaContesAnalyse structuraleFairy tales, classificationAfranas'ev, alexanr nikolaevich, 1826-1871