Historical Roots of the Wondertale
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Product details:
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date of Publication 31 December 2025
- ISBN 9780253074034
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages472 pages
- Size 254x178 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English 700
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Long description:
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 Historical Roots of the Wondertale, he broadens and deepens his analysis, comparing folktale structures and content to rituals and customs of aboriginal societies from around the world and with people who were the first to envision religion and myth. Relying on both structural and historical-comparative methods, Propp sees the roots of the wondertale in rituals from earlier stages of human development, whose narratives were repurposed as their tellers settled into agricultural societies and ancient rituals were no longer practiced.
With a new introduction, conclusion, translators' notes, and a full bibliography, Historical Roots of the Wondertale complements and expands upon the Morphology, completing Propp's search for the origins of wondertales, myths, and religious practices.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Translators' Introduction
Author's Preface
1. Premises
2. Beginnings
3. The Mysterious Forest
4. The Big House
5. Magic Gifts
6. Crossing Over
7. At the River of Fire
8. Beyond the Thrice-Nine Lands
9. The Bride
10. The Wondertale as a Whole
Afterword: Vladimir Propp and His Historical Roots of the Wondertale, by Sergei Nekliudov
Notes
Bibliography
Index
