The fairytale and plot structure
By: Terence Patrick Murphy, Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Yonsei University, South Korea
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781137547071
Subjects: Technique; Plots (Drama, novel, etc.); History and criticism; Storytelling; Fairy tales
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of plot analysis; title: Character theory: from Aristotle to the Cambridge ritualists; title: Plot structure: from Aristotle to the Cambridge ritualists; title: From Veselovskian motif to Proppian function; title: A Proppian analysis of Charles Perrault's Cinderella; title: False and real sequences in Ashputtel; title: The robber bridegroom: the limits of Propp's analysis; title: Fitcher's bird: a second horrific fairy tale genotype; title: The frog prince: the doubled pivotal eighth function; title: Beauty and the beast: the irresolute nineteenth plot function; title: Puss-in-boots: the character of the angelic double; title: Tom-tit-tot: the character of the diabolic double; title: Jack and the beanstalk: the hero's journey; title: Little red riding hood: the defeat of the heroine in the struggle; title: The story of the three bears: a very short fairy tale.