RUSSIAN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vladimir Propp, Russian Formalism, The Sequence
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Monday 2-20-19 vladimir propp and russian formalism - women in. Russian formalism -- became important russian literary movement. Sequence of function is always identical and. 31 functions so all tales are the same. Not all functions need to be present in all tales by the order is the same trebling. A lot of restrictions on what sort of people could write/read. Don"t care if it"s telling some bougie story or communism story. We don"t care about meaning, we care how it uses verbs. The study of form/structure of the fairytale. Here in the us, there was a gap bc it wasn"t translated until the 1950"s. Contended that they could be studied and compared by their most basic plot components. Reduce fairytales to a series of actions performed by the hero. All ft are constructed under certain plot elements (functions) These functions always followed the same patterns. Doesn"t matter the ft, they all fit the 31 functions.
