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The fairytale and plot structure /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murphy, Terence Patrick, 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:	Fairy tales > History and criticism. Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) Storytelling > Technique. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Fairy tales.

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.