Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.

Read more about Vladimir Propp:  Biography, Narrative Structure, Criticism

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