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As Vladimir Propp notes, “fairy tales possess a quite particular structure which is immediately felt and which determines their category, even though we may not be aware of it”.1 Nowadays, Propp is remembered principally because of his discovery of this plot structure. The way he made this discovery was by focusing his attention on the central importance of plot function.
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Murphy, T.P. (2015). A Functional Analysis of Charles Perrault’s Cinderella. In: From Fairy Tale to Film Screenplay. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137552037_3
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