Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Propp, V. I︠A︡. (Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich), 1895-1970, author.

Title:

Theory and history of folklore / Vladimir Propp ; translated by Ariadna Y. Martin and Richard P. Martin and several others ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Anatoly Liberman.

Publisher, Date:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1984].

Description:

lxxxi, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Summary:

"This book will give Propp's admirers in the English-speakling world a whole new perspective on this distinguished scholar's contribution to folkloristics. Liberman provides the necessary background in terms of Russian/Soviet intellectual (and political) currents to place Propp's work in a new light. No student of structuralism in folklore can afford to miss Liberman's anthology."--Alan Dundes (from cover).

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 5

Theory and history of literature ; v. 5.

Subjects:

Folk literature, Eastern Slavic -- History and criticism.

Tales -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.

Tales -- History and criticism.

Folklore -- Methodology.

Folk literature, Russian -- History and criticism.

Tales -- Russia (Federation) -- History and criticism.

Other Author:

Martín, Ariadna, translator.

Martin, Richard P., translator.

Liberman, Anatoly, editor, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.

Notes:

"The present volume is a miscellany by Vladimir Propp, a famous Russian folklorist ...."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and indexes.

Contents:

The nature of folklore -- folklore and reality -- The principles of classifying folklore genres -- On the historicity of folklore -- The structural and historical study of the wondertale -- Transformations of the wondertale -- Historical roots of the wondertale: premises -- Historical roots of the wondertale: the wondertale as a whole -- Ritual laughter in folklore -- Russian heroic epic poetry: introduction.

LCCN:

83014840

ISBN:

0816611807

9780816611805

0816611823

9780816611829

Other Number:

9785586

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Call Number:

398.20947 Propp