Dans ce dernier ouvrage, Vladimir Propp souligne l’importance du culte des défunts, examine les pratiques magiques favorisant la renaissance des divinités agraires, analyse longuement l’érotisme et le rire rituels qui apportent fertilité aux champs et fécondité au bétail, et redonne ainsi vie à un monde paysan traditionnel aujourd’hui presque disparu.

Vladimir Propp développe dans cet ouvrage sa fameuse méthode d’analyse et étudie les modes de transmission orale. Il brosse le portrait de quelques conteurs de renom et entreprend, à l’échelle européenne, une histoire de la collecte et des théories sur le conte. Rendant hommage à Afanassiev, il parfait la distinction entre contes merveilleux, contes d’animaux et contes réalistes, et nous offre une approche critique de la précieuse classification des contes établie jusqu’alors.

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 conte...

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...

Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work The Russian Folktale.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 folkta...

Nearly seven decades after the English translation of Morphology of the Folktale, one of the most influential scholarly books on folklore, its sequel is finally available in an official English translation, completing the enterprise that occupied much of Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp's life.In Morphology of the Folktale, Propp approached these narratives synchronically, using structural analysis to identify the wondertale's minimal units and deep structure. In Hi...