Morphological analysis of the texts of folk ballads. An attempt at constructing a pattern according to the system of V. Propp.

Abstract

 The study of ballads in Czech, Slovak and generally Slavonic environment has become an acknowledged classic tradition. In the post-war period the authors were until the seventies and sixties dealing mostly with subject comparison in the Slavonic as well as in Slavonic-non-Slavonic environment and with some special questions concerning the ballads poetics; there also appeared several good editions.