Structural analysis of myth or other fiction - recommend me some?

Look for Vladimir Propp, and don't blame me.

sunandshadow said:

Having run out of Claude Levi-Strauss to read, I'm looking for similar books or smaller essays/articles that structurally analyze one or several myths or other types of fiction (especially novels). So if anyone knows of any, please recommend them.

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You've read all 4 volumes of Mythologies? The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes? The Origin of Table Manners and the Naked Man?

And the two later ones: the Way of the Masks and the Story of Lynx?

That's a lot of Levi-Strauss. How about Edmund Leach, Victor Turner and Mary Douglass?

sunandshadow said:

Yes I read all that Levi-Strauss - I enjoy reading him, as long as I don't try to read too much at a time. Thank you, I will check out Leach, Turner, and Douglass.

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That's great! Here's some strangeness on the Leach front.

http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0272/PP/ERL;recurse=1