Watching Her (Discovered Book 12)

This book is the classic work on forms of the European folktale. CONTENTS 8 Preface to the Second Edition 10 Introduction to the Second Edition 12 Introduction to the First Edition 20 Acknowledgements 24 Author's Foreword 26 I. On the History of the Problem 30 II. The Method and Material 46 III. The Functions of Dramatis Personae 52 IV. Assimilations: Cases of the Double Morphological 93 V. Some Other Elements of the Tale 98 VI. The Distribution of Functions Among Dramatis 106 VII. Ways in Which New Characters Are Introduced 111 VIII. On the Attributes of Dramatis Personae and their 114 Appendix I: Materials for a Tabulation of the Table 146 Appendix II: Further Techniques of Analyses 155 Appendix III: Schemes and Commentary 162 Appendix IV: List of Abbreviations 176 Appendix V: Comparative Chart of Tale Numbers 183

"Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretical breakthroughs in the field of folklore in the twentieth century."

—Alan Dundes

"Propp's work is seminal...[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists who are directing their attention to the form of the folktale, especially to those structural characteristics which are common to many entries coming from even different cultures."

—Choice

Vladimir Propp was born in Petersburg, April 29, 1895. In 1932 he was called to a position at the University of Leningrad and went on to make major contributions to Russian folklore studies, comparative mythology, and the classification of folklore genres. His international fame is closely tied to the contributions he made to the structural analysis of folklore in Morphology of the Folktale. -- from back cover