Historical roots of the fairy tale

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp is an outstanding Russian philologist, professor at Leningrad University, founder of the comparative typological method in folklore studies and one of the creators of the modern theory of text. For many years he studied folklore, researched the patterns of its development, established the origins of well-known genres, plots, images and motifs. Vladimir Yakovlevich's works on folklore are considered classics of philological science, including: "Morphology of the Fairy Tale", "Historical Roots of the Fairy Tale", "Russian Heroic Epic" and others.
In his fundamental work "The Historical Roots of the Fairy Tale" Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp comprehensively examines the fairy tale, finds out, as he himself formulated in the goal of the work, "the sources of the fairy tale in historical reality" and shows how exactly archetypes, various attitudes and meanings are realized in the text of the fairy tale and its structure. This book will help the reader find out what is hidden in everyone's favorite fairy tales, what Baba Yaga, Koschei, the Horse and the Serpent represent in their various variations, how totemic initiation rituals are realized in fairy tales and much, much more.
Despite the depth of the author's thought, the book is quite easy to read and will bring great pleasure to both the inexperienced reader and the professional philologist.

Author: Vladimir Propp
Year of issue: 2023
Publisher: AST
Pages: 512
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 210x130x30 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-158434-4