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The Russian folktale
Russkaia skazka. English. 2012
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"[The Russian Folktale is] an impressively wide-ranging work that stimulates through speculation, it provides precisely what the early elaboration of functions declaratively lacks: an etiology of g...
"[The Russian Folktale is] an impressively wide-ranging work that stimulates through speculation, it provides precisely what the early elaboration of functions declaratively lacks: an etiology of genre, a broad historical perspective, analyses of individual tales, commentary on tale-tellers, engagement with previous scholarship, and examination of a sufficiently broad European context to enable thought-provoking insights into the distinctiveness of Russian folk narratives."--Helena Goscilo -- Book jacket
Details
- Creator
- Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp ; edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester ; foreword by Jack Zipes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2012
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (413 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780814337219, 081433721X, 0814334660
- OCLC
- ocn843208720
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Foreword: toward understanding the complete Vladimir Propp / Jack Zipes -- Vladimir Propp and the Russian folktale / Sibelan Forrester -- The Russian folktale / Vladimir Yakolevich Propp. Introduction ; The history of collection ; The history of study of the folktale ; Wonder tales ; Novellistic tales ; Cumulative tales ; Animal tales ; The life of the folktale