num_pages: 170
description: Dr. Peter Gilet takes Vladimir Propp's 31-part structure of the European folktale and suggests a reduction to five moves. This allows Propp's structure to be applied successfully to stories from Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas, thus providing a widespread tale type, perhaps the main tale type in oral literature. Dr. Gilet also suggests that this type has strong meaningful similarities with shamanic and puberty initiation rituals in pre-industrial societies. Just how meaningful will be the object of future research.
language: English
title: Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm Story as Initiation
titlecomplete: Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm Story as Initiation
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers