Structural Analysis of Kashmiri Folktales (book review)

HANDOO, LALITA. CIIL Silver Jubilee Publication Series. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, 1994. xiii + 230 pages. Map, tables, bibliography. Rs. 82.00; ISBN 81-7342-007-6.

The aim of Structural Analysis of Kashmiri Folktales is to test V. J. Propp's morphological-structural approach by applying it to Kashmiri folktales. The author bases the study on J. Hinten Knowles's work The Folk-Tales of Kashmir (London, 1893), which can be used to apply Propp's theory as it contains every kind of narrative type. In applying Propp's theory the author limits the study to the ...

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