The Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp published his first book, Morphology of the Folktale, in 1928. Since it was translated to English, in 1958, it has become an international bestseller and is well ...known as a major theoretical work in oral literature. Now, Anatoly Liberman has selected seven essays and three chapters from his later books which together reveal the full range of Propp’s thought in Theory and History of Folklore. This will help readers see that his work is essentially a theory of narrative. Included are the famous essay by Claude Levi-Strauss about Propp and Propp’s response to Levi-Strauss’s Critique. “This book will give Propp’s admirers in the English-speaking world a whole new perspective on this distinguished scholar’s contribution to folkloristics. Liberman provides the necessary background in terms of Russian/Soviet intellectual (and political) currents to place Propp’s work in a new light. No student of structuralism in folklore can afford to miss Liberman’s anthology.” -Alan Dundes, University of California, Berkeley
The efficiency of the combined opencast and underground mining of deposits directly depends on the overburden amount within the open pit boundaries. The amount of overburden to be removed, in its ...turn, is determined by the angles of the open pit slopes. At the same time, the influence of the open pit slope angle on the amount of the rock mass within the open-pit contours increases in an arithmetic progression with the mining depth. This fact confirms the direct relationship between the open pit slope angle and the efficiency of the mining operations from both an economic and ecological points of view. The article considers the technology for mining steeply inclined deposits of valuable ores by means of underground chambers mined out in advance with consolidating stowing to support unworked sides of an open pit called “well”. The chambers which can be not only vertical but also inclined at an angle of 60-80° serve to create an artificial fence (a ring concrete support). The work of the fence supporting the open pit side is markedly different from that of retaining walls of any type since the consolidating stowing mixture used to create the fence provides an ideal contact of the concrete wall with the enclosing rocks, thus making it impossible for an artificial fence to overturn. The proposed combined mining technology is expected to reduce considerably the number of the overburden operations, to minimize the damage caused by mining operations to the environment, and to increase the intensity of mine workings.
This translation of the book ('The Historical Roots of Magic Tale') written by one of the most prominent Russian folklorists of the 20th century Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp, presents one more ...classical work of anthropological and folkloristical science to Slovenian researchers. The theoretical starting-points which Propp concived in his book “Morphology of the Folktale” was in this work projected on concrete material – on Russian and European folktales. By comparing folktale motifs with actual historical and anthropological sources he substantiated his structuralistical and ritualistical theoties in folk narrative research and folkloristics.
International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning ...with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.
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