During the heady days of... «Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction»
innashpitzberg2 сентября 2012During the heady days of the 1960s, structuralism was everywhere. It moved easily from myth to stories. Barthes himself produced an essay on ‘The Structural Analysis of Narratives’. In 1928 the Russian Formalist Vladimir Propp had analysed the fairy tales of his own culture, ignoring the variables to find a single structure of 7 possible characters and 31 possible actions. The Morphology of the Folktale first appeared in English in 1958, eliciting an essay from Lévi-Strauss in 1960. This essay praised Propp's work, but pointed out that the problem with formalism was its policy of ignoring thematic content.
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