Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp is an outstanding Russian philologist, professor at Leningrad University. One of the founders of the structural-typological approach in folklore studies, which later became widely used in literary criticism. The works of V. Ya. Propp on the study of folklore entered the golden fund of world science of the twentieth century.
In books dedicated to fairy tales, V. Ya. Propp abandons traditional approaches to the study of the phenomena of oral folk art and turns first to the analysis of structural elements genre, and then to its origins, establishing typological similarities between fairy tales and initiation rites. The book “Russian Heroic Epic” (1955) turned out to be the first and so far the only fundamental study devoted to epics. V. Ya. Propp undertook their plot, thematic and poetic analysis. This work of the scientist is a kind of reference book on the Russian epic - from the first epic hero Volkh Vseslavyevich to the well-known Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya, Vasily Buslaevich and others.
In many ways ahead of their time, the works of V. Ya. Propp became classics of humanitarian research and have not yet lost their relevance. If you are wondering why fairy tales talk about dead water, and the evil stepmother cannot take her stepdaughter to the forest herself, and, finally, who are these seven men living in the forest, then the book will give answers to these questions.
The book presents an amazing concentration of thought, there are no unnecessary words in the text. A fairy tale appears as a constructor, by examining which you can better understand Russian culture.
The work will be interesting and useful reading for writers, linguists and all lovers of fairy tales.
Author: Vladimir Propp
Pages: 1168 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 216x152x48 mm
Series: Russian literature. Big books
