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Vladimir Iakovlevich Propp (1895 – 1970), one of the most important thinkers in the formalist tradition, who devised a revolutionary methodology for analyzing folk tales, was born into a family of German heritage in St Petersburg, Russia. After graduating from St Petersburg University in 1918 with a degree in Russian and German philology, he taught German in a high school. In 1932, four years after publishing his best‐known work – __Morphology of the Folktale__ – he returned to his alma mater, renamed Leningrad University, as a professor of folklore. Propp's preference for a methodological approach based on evidence and fact aligns him with the Russian formalist tradition, which strove for scientific rigor in the analysis of literature. In 1966, reacting to Claude LEevi‐Strauss's critique of __Morphology__ , Propp said of himself: “I am a mere empiricist, but a true empiricist” (1976[1960]: 278). However, despite this assertion and despite the fact that many scholars have labeled him a Russian formalist, Propp's career began as the formalist movement was curtailed by the shift in politics that accompanied Joseph Stalin's rise to power.

Author

Dawn Seckler

Publisher

Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781405194495

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities