The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp write by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp. This book was released on 2012-09-12. The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was based on a seminar on Russian folktales that Propp taught at Leningrad State University late in his life. Edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, this English edition contains Propp's own text and is supplemented by notes from his students. The Russian Folktale begins with Propp's description of the folktale's aesthetic qualities and the history of the term; the history of folklore studies, first in Western Europe and then in Russia and the USSR; and the place of the folktale in the matrix of folk culture and folk oral creativity. The book presents Propp's key insight into the formulaic structure of Russian wonder tales (and less schematically than in Morphology, though in abbreviated form), and it devotes one chapter to each of the main types of Russian folktales: the wonder tale, the "novellistic" or everyday tale, the animal tale, and the cumulative tale. Even Propp's bibliography, included here, gives useful insight into the sources accessible to and used by Soviet scholars in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Propp's scholarly authority and his human warmth both emerge from this well-balanced and carefully structured series of lectures. An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.
The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp write by Propp, Vladimir I. Akovlevich Propp. This book was released on 2012. The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work The Russian Folktale.
On the Comic and Laughter
On the Comic and Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Comic and Laughter write by Vladimir Propp. This book was released on 2009-11-07. On the Comic and Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Molière, and Shakespeare. The direct, humorous, and provocative style of this work, which tackles the subject of humour with a vast array of vivid examples encountered on every page, will certainly appeal to the contemporary reader. Vladimir Propp takes various forms of laughter in literature and real life and addresses questions such as the comic of similarity, the comic of difference, parody, duping, incongruity, lying, ritual laughter, and carnival laughter. The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.
International Folkloristics
International Folkloristics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Folkloristics write by Alan Dundes. This book was released on 1999-08-01. International Folkloristics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.
Morphology of the Folk Tale
Morphology of the Folk Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morphology of the Folk Tale write by V. Propp. This book was released on 2010-06-03. Morphology of the Folk Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This seminal work by the renowned Russian folklorist presents his groundbreaking structural analysis of classic fairytales and their genres. One of the most influential works of 20th century literary criticism, Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folk Tale is essential reading for anyone interested in examining the structural characteristics of fairytales. Since it first appeared in English in 1958, this groundbreaking study has had a major impact on the work of folklorists, linguists, anthropologists, and literary critics. “Propp’s work is seminal…[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists who are directing their attention to the form of the folktale, especially those structural characteristics which are common to many entries coming from different cultures.”—Choice
