The fairytale and plot structure / Terence Patrick Murphy, Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Yonsei University, South Korea.
From the time of the Classical era of Greece and Rome, literary theorists have been concerned with the subject of how the plots of stories are organized. In The Poetics, Aristotle put forward the crucial idea that a plot must possess sufficient amplitude to allow a probable or necessary succession o...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.