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The fairytale and plot structure / Terence Patrick Murphy, Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Yonsei University, South Korea.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Terence Patrick, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--History and criticism.
- Fairy tales.
- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.).
- Storytelling--Technique.
- Storytelling.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 204 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Contents:
- The origins of plot analysis
- Character theory: from Aristotle to the Cambridge ritualists
- Plot structure: from Aristotle to the Cambridge ritualists
- From Veselovskian motif to Proppian function
- A Proppian analysis of Charles Perrault's Cinderella
- False and real sequences in Ashputtel
- The robber bridegroom: the limits of Propp's analysis
- Fitcher's bird: a second horrific fairy tale genotype
- The frog prince: the doubled pivotal eighth function
- Beauty and the beast: the irresolute nineteenth plot function
- Puss-in-boots: the character of the angelic double
- Tom-tit-tot: the character of the diabolic double
- Jack and the beanstalk: the hero's journey
- Little red riding hood: the defeat of the heroine in the struggle
- The story of the three bears: a very short fairy tale.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137547071
- 1137547073
- OCLC:
- 908935024
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