The Structural-Semantic Types of Lithuanian Folk Tales : Volumes I-II

Text in English. 477 & 331 pp. Faint scratching to rear cover of volume I. 2 Volumes. Volume I, Genres and tale types Volume II, The classification and index of elementary plots and their types THE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM of the types of folk tales published by Antti Aarne in 1910 was a much needed and courageous project. The author of this book has classified more than 40,000 variants of Lithuanian folk tales according to the international catalogue by Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson (AT). She has concluded that it is necessary to improve the classification system. The author has determined elementary plots (EP) as structural elements of folk narratives. She has created the structural-semantic method for analysis and description of texts on several levels. Structural-semantic types of folk tales as well as concrete plots of Lithuanian tales are described in the book. The classification of elementary plots and their types contains much information about folk tales and about people. The classes of EP reflect people's perpetual goals. The EP types reflect the ways of achieving goals, people's rules of behaviour.…