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Yasami far M, sepahvandi M, khosravi shakib M. The Criticism and Analysis of “Head” Folk Tale based on Vladimir Propp Morphology. CFL 2019; 7 (27) :189-213
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1- Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Khoramabad Branch, Iran
2- Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Khoramabad Branch, Iran , masood.sepahvandi@yahoo.com
3- Farsi Language and Literature, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran
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In order to explore the smallest structural units, structuralists analyze the inter- related and contrastive relations among texts’ constituents. In this study, the authors seek to investigate and criticize the structure of “Head” Folk Tale – from Khorram Abad – based on Vladimir Propp Morphological model. To this end and at first and by analyzing and investigating tale’s protagonists, the authors have discussed the structuralist approach and Vladimir Propp’s morphological model. This story is composed of two movements and two types of heroes: the hero - victim and the hero- searcher. The general structure of the story with a small number of displacements corresponds to the Propp morphological pattern. The last function of this story is totally different from the last function proposed by Propp. According to the main objective of structuralism which investigates the hidden layers of phenomena; in the end of this article, the authors have tried to analyze the most important contents such as fatalism, zurvanism, virgin birth , the natural son, and abandoned child
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Article Type: پژوهشی اصیل | Subject: Popular literature
Received: 2018/12/15 | Accepted: 2019/06/30 | Published: 2019/09/15

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