10 Facts About Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Propp was born on 29 April 1895 in Saint Petersburg to an assimilated Russian family of German descent.

Vladimir Propp attended Saint Petersburg University, majoring in Russian and German philology.

Vladimir Propp's morphology is used in media education and has been applied to other types of narrative, be it in literature, theatre, film, television series, games, etc.

In 1932, Vladimir Propp became a member of Leningrad University faculty.

Vladimir Propp remained a faculty member until his death in 1970.

Vladimir Propp identified these 31 functions as typical of all fairy tales, or wonder tales [skazka] in Russian folklore.

Vladimir Propp concluded that all the characters in tales could be resolved into seven abstract character functions:.

Vladimir Propp's approach has been criticized for its excessive formalism.

One of the most prominent critics of Vladimir Propp was structuralist Claude Levi-Strauss, who, in dialogue with Vladimir Propp, argued for the superiority of the paradigmatic over syntagmatic approach.

Vladimir Propp responded to this criticism in a sharply-worded rebuttal: he wrote that Levi-Strauss showed no interest in empirical investigation.