Morphology of a fairy tale. Propp V.Ya.

Vladimir Yakovlevich PrPP (1895-1970)-a folklorist scientist, professor of Leningrad University, the founder of the comparative-typological method in folkloreism. V. Ya. Propp became the forerunner of modern structuralism and one of the creators of the modern theory of the text.

“Morphology of the fairy tale” (1928) is the most famous monograph by V. Ya. Proppa, the first part of the unsurpassed classical study, dedicated to the structure. fairy tales. Based on the material of Russian folklore, the scientist identifies the constant and variable elements of the fairy tale. He classifies the actions of the characters that are important for the development of action - the so -called “functions”, to alternating - language style, motivation and attributes of heroes. The diversity of the magical world of the fairy tale obeys the strict algorithm of functions, which turned out to be universal for Russian folklore with Ivan Tsarevich and Vasilisa Beautiful, and for the European with Rapunzel and Snow White.

The ideas of V. Ya. Proppa not only affected Folklore, literary criticism and textology, but also began to be applied in political science, advertising, copywriting, the creation of games and scripts.

The publication is illustrated by reproductions of painting, graphics and various artifacts with parallel plots from European, Asian and American mythology and folklore.