The fairytale and plot structure / Terence Patrick Murphy.

• The origins of plot analysis -- Character theory: from Aristotle to the Cambridge ritualists -- Plot structure: from Aristotle to the Cambridge ritualists -- From Veselovskian motif to Proppian function -- A Proppian analysis of Charles Perrault's Cinderella -- False and real sequences in Ashputtel -- The robber bridegroom: the limits of Propp's analysis -- Fitcher's bird: a second horrific fairy tale genotype -- The frog prince: the doubled pivotal eighth function -- Beauty and the beast: the irresolute nineteenth plot function -- Puss-in-boots: the character of the angelic double -- Tom-tit-tot: the character of the diabolic double -- Jack and the beanstalk: the hero's journey -- Little red riding hood: the defeat of the heroine in the struggle -- The story of the three bears: a very short fairy tale.

Subject headings

Litterär stil  (sao)

Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)  (LCSH)

Fairy tales  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Storytelling  -- Technique. (LCSH)

Fairy tales.  (fast)

Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)  (fast)

Sagor  -- historia (sao)

Storytelling  -- Technique. (fast)

Style, Literary  (LCSH)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Publication and Content Type

398.209 (DDC)

G.07 (kssb/8 (machine generated))