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International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2021, 3(3); doi: 10.25236/IJNDE.2021.030305.

A Morphological Reading of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Based on Vladimir Propp’s Narrative Theory

Author(s)

Peng Teng 

Corresponding Author:
Peng Teng
Affiliation(s)

School of Foreign Languages, Zhaotong University, Zhaotong, Yunnan, 657000, China  

Abstract

This paper makes a narrative analysis of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with Propp’s morphology of the folktale, to further prove that “Propp’s model has the explanatory power to account for narratives that had not even come into being at the time the model was developed” (Simpson, 2004:71) and that the sequence of functions that realized in narratives is not always identical.

Keywords

Narrative Analysis; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale

Cite This Paper

Peng Teng. A Morphological Reading of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Based on Vladimir Propp’s Narrative Theory. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2021) Vol. 3, Issue 3: 18-21. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2021.030305.

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