Russian Folk Lyrics - Paperback
Russian Folk Lyrics - Paperback
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by Roberta Reeder (Author), Roberta Reader (Editor), Roberta Reeder (Editor)
V. Ja. Propp's essay in this volume extends beyond the formulaic analysis of folklore outlined in his classic The Morphology of the Folktale. In this study, newly translated by Robert Reeder, Propp considers the Russian folk lyric in the social and historical context in which it was produced.
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Propp's essay in Russian Folk Lyrics extends beyond the formalistic analysis of folklore outlined in his classic The Morphology of the Folktale. In this study, newly translated by Roberts Reeder, Propp considers the Russian folk lyric in the social and historical context in which it was produced.
Author Biography
ROBERTA REEDER, Research Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, is editor of the Slavic and East European Newsletter for the American Folklore Society. She has edited a volume of Akhmatova's complete works.
