Russian heroic epic. Propp V.

Vladimir Yakovlevich PrPP is an outstanding domestic philologist, one of the founders of the structural and typological approach in folklore, which later received wide application in literary criticism. His works on the study of folklore (“Morphology of the Tale”, “The Historical Roots of the Fairy Tale”, “Russian Heroic Epos”, “Russian Agrarian Feasts”, etc.) were included in the Golden Fund of World Science of the twentieth century.

The book The Russian Heroic Epos (1955) was the first and still the only fundamental study on epics. V.Ya. Propp undertook their plot-thematic and poetic analysis. This work of the scientist is a kind of reference book in the Russian epic - from the first epic hero of the Volkha Vseslavievich to the well -known Ilya Muromets, Dobryni, Vasily Buslaevich and others. The abundance of actual material and the systematic analysis make this book interesting not only for folklore specialists, but also For all connoisseurs of folk culture. In many ways ahead of his time, the work of V.Ya. Proppa became a classic of humanitarian research and still have not lost their relevance.