Morphology of a magical fairy tale. Historical roots of a magical fairy tale

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp - an outstanding domestic philologist, professor of Leningrad University. One of the founders of the structural and typological approach in folklorism, which later received widespread use in literary criticism. The works of V. Ya. Proppa on the study of folklore (“Morphology of the Tale”, “The historical roots of a fairy tale”, “Russian heroic epic”, “Russian agrarian holidays”) were included in the Golden Fund of World Science of the twentieth century.
In books dedicated to the magical fairy tale, V. Ya. Propp refuses traditional approaches to the study of the phenomena of oral folk art and first turns to the analysis of the structural elements of the genre, and then to its origins, establishing a typological similarity between the fairy tale and the rites of initiation