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

    It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought. Ultimately, the book shows that profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions on the riddles of life and death are universally recognizable.

    

    Contents include: The Tale of the Tales / The Wolf Who Knew How To Be a Friend / The Bear, the Fox and the Butter Jar / The Wolf Who Went to Jerusalem / Davit / The Kinto and the King / The Man Who Was Full of Fun / The Honest Man / Ajam Boglay / Asar, Basar, and Kourkeddana / The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks / Rostom / The Khevsouri and the Eshmahkie / The King of the Noise / Mywhat / The Man Who Had a Good Wife / Foolers Fooled / The Miser Mouse / Foolish and Wise / The Youth Who Built a House of Elephant Bones.

    This valuable collection gathers tribal voice and thought into a surpassing whole that offers to the reader the pleasures of subtle poetry, the intensity of living struggles, the humor of myth, and the depth of consideration for all of life that characterizes the most moving of Native American philosophies.