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Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--Story as Initiation.(Review)
Asian Folklore Studies, April, 2001 by EL-SHAMY, HASAN
GILET, PETER. Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--Story as Initiation. Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature, volume 17. Bern: Peter Lang, 1998. 170 pages. Bibliography. Cloth FR. 58.00; ISBN 0-8204-3847-2.
This concise work is a carefully-crafted, comprehensive assessment of Propp's theory and its impact on the study of folk narratives. The author introduces his book by pointing out that the impetus for his study was a half-remembered "archetypal tale" about an abandoned child and an ogre that he had learned as a ...
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