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Zusatztext 'Terence Patrick Murphy's book makes a fundamental contribution to narratology. By combining linguistics! philology! philosophy and folk studies! and thanks to a huge knowledge of the critical literature! Murphy thoroughly investigates the structure and the limits of Propp's major work. This book is recommended to everybody interested in the study of narrative and theory of literature.' Luciano Vitacolonna! University of Chieti-Pescara! Italy 'In this book! Professor Murphy challenges one of Vladimir Propp's central tenets that 31 action types constitute the vocabulary from which! in a canonical sequence! genuine tale plots can be composed. By comparing such sequences to genotypes! he offers a rich set of counterexamples which call for an unbiased reconsideration.' Sándor Darányi! University of Borås! Sweden Informationen zum Autor Terence Patrick Murphy is Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the English Department at Yonsei University, South Korea. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Merton College, Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the history of the little magazine in England. He has published essays in such journals as the Journal of Narrative Theory; Narrative; Language and Literature and Style . His major research interest is the stylistics of short fiction and the semiotics of film screenplays Klappentext This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used, the reader or creative writer will obtain a much better understanding of many other types of fiction, including short stories, dramatic texts and Hollywood screenplays. Zusammenfassung This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype! the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used! the reader or creative writer will obtain a much better understanding of many other types of fiction! including short stories! dramatic texts and Hollywood screenplays. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on the AuthorNote on the Selection of the Texts1. The Origins of Plot Analysis2. Character Theory: from Aristotle to the Cambridge Ritualists3. Plot Structure: from Aristotle to the Cambridge Ritualists4. From Veselovskian Motif to Proppian Function5. A Proppian Analysis of Charles Perrault's Cinderella6. False and Real Sequences in Ashputtel7. The Robber Bridegroom: The Limits of Propp's Analysis8. Fitcher's Bird: A Second Horrific Fairy Tale Genotype9. The Frog Prince: The Doubled Pivotal Eighth Function10. Beauty and the Beast: The Irresolute Nineteenth Plot Function11. Puss-in-Boots: the Character of the Angelic Double12. Tom-Tit-Tot: The Character of the Diabolic Double13. Jack and the Beanstalk: The Hero's Journey14. Little Red Riding Hood: The Defeat of the Heroine in the Struggle15. The Story of the Three Bears: A Very Short Fairy Tale16. ConclusionAppendix 1: The Formal Representation of 'The Fox and the Crow' BibliographyIndex...
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'Terence Patrick Murphy's book makes a fundamental contribution to narratology. By combining linguistics, philology, philosophy and folk studies, and thanks to a huge knowledge of the critical literature, Murphy thoroughly investigates the structure and the limits of Propp's major work. This book is recommended to everybody interested in the study of narrative and theory of literature.' Luciano Vitacolonna, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
'In this book, Professor Murphy challenges one of Vladimir Propp's central tenets that 31 action types constitute the vocabulary from which, in a canonical sequence, genuine tale plots can be composed. By comparing such sequences to genotypes, he offers a rich set of counterexamples which call for an unbiased reconsideration.' Sándor Darányi,
University of Borås, Sweden
