Vladimir Propp

Dmitry Olshansky

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 29 Apr 1895
Died 22 Aug 1970
Activity 1915-1970

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Russia

Activities

Primary

Literary Critic/ Historian

Resources

Propp's Works

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Vladimir Propp was a Russian philologist and structuralist who analysed the basic plot components of Russian folktales in order to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements. His research on fairy-tales achieved world recognition as the first application of structuralism to the humanities and created the foundation for new disciplines, such as narratology, semiology and structural anthropology. Umberto Eco considers that “Saussure + Lévi-Strauss + Hjelmslev + Propp drawn up the method, which tried to be integral one, that is know as structuralism”. (Eco, p. 348). Successors such as Roland Barthes, A. J. Greimas and Claude Lévi-Strauss tried to spread this method and resolve similar tasks, looking for the narrative elements in all contemporary culture: “from newspaper…

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Citation: Olshansky, Dmitry. "Vladimir Propp". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 May 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3652, accessed 21 November 2024.]