Narrative theories

Narrative theories: Vladimir Propp


about vladimir propp: Vladimir Propp was born on April 17, 1895 in St. Petersburg to a German family. He attended St. Petersburg University (1913–1918) majoring in Russian and German philology Upon graduation he taught Russian and German at a secondary school and then became a college teacher of German.

what mr Vladimir did?
Vladimir Propp analysed a whole series of Russian folk tales in the 1920s and decided that the same events kept being repeated in each of the stories, creating a consistent framework. His seminal book, Morphology of the Folk Tale, was first published in 1928 and has had a huge influence on literary theorists and practitioners ever since.

Propp extended the Russian Formalist study of language to his analysis of folk tales. He broke down the tales into the smallest possible units, which he called narratemes, or narrative functions, necessary for the narrative to exist. Each narrateme is an event that drives the narrative forward, possibly taking it in a different direction. Not all of these functions appear in every story, but they always appear in this order.

VLADIMIR PROPPS CHRACTER THEORY :

the villain : fights the hero in some way.
the dispatcher: character who makes the villains evil known and send the hero off.
the princes or prize: the hero deserve he throughout the story but is uinable to marry her because of an unfair evil,the heroes jouneys is often ended when he marries the princess , thereby beating the villain and resulting in a happily ever after.
her father: gives the task to the hero identifies the false hero, and marries the hero, often sought for during the narratives.
the donor : prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical obkject.
the hero or victim/sekker hero: reacts to the donor weds the princess.
false hero : takes credit for the heros actions or tries to marry the princess.