Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. Introduction 1
3. SECTION ONE: Narrative Patterns
4. The Innocent Persecuted Heroine: An Attempt at a Model for the Surface Level of the Narrative Structure of the Female Fairy Tale 13
5. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: An Attempt at a Model for the Narrative Structure of the Reward-and-Punishment Fairy Tale 31
6. The Morphology of the French Fairy Tale: The Ethical Model 49
7. Fundamentals of a Grammar of Oral Literature 77
8. A Model for Narrative Structure in Oral Literature 99
9. Modeling Propp and Lévi-Strauss in a Metasymbolic Simulation System 141
10. SECTION TWO: Patterns of Content
11. Lévi-Strauss' Myth of Method 223
12. Scandinavian Mythology as a System of Oppositions 251
13. Content Analysis of Oral Literature: A Discussion 261
14. APPENDICES
15. The Problem of "Tale Role" and "Character" in Propp's Work 313
16. List of Propp's Functions 321
17. Biographical Notes 323
18. Index of Names 327
19. Index of Subjects 331
20. Index of Aarne-Thompson Numbers Discussed in Papers 333