Identifying Function, Agent, and Setting Motifs in Some Early Spanish "libros de caballerías"

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  • KRISTIN NEUMAYER

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https://doi.org/10.7203/tirant.15.2089

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The essay presents the methodology of a doctoral thesis (2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison) which classifies plot motifs in some sixteenth-century Castilian books of chivalry. Therein, two critical approaches to the texts are noted: motif studies, which analyze narrative components, and structural studies, which examine whole plotlines. Based on V. Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale, the motif is defined as a unit of plot structure. Propp’s thirty-one functions and seven tale-roles are then reduced to three categories: settings, functions, and agents. To demonstrate, a sample text from Amadís de Gaula, Book I is analyzed and its plot motifs indexed accordingly.

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2013-01-27

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NEUMAYER, K. (2013). Identifying Function, Agent, and Setting Motifs in Some Early Spanish "libros de caballerías". Tirant: Butlletí Informatiu I bibliogràfic De Literatura De Cavalleries, (15), 135–154. https://doi.org/10.7203/tirant.15.2089
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