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Criticism Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the most prominent critics of Propp, used Propps monograph on the morphology of the Folktale to demonstrate the superiority of the structuralist approach, and the shortcomings of the Formalist approach. Propps approach has been criticized for failing to recognize the importance of such story components as tone, mood, characterization, and writing style just to name a few. Problems and Questions Propp attempt to specify a narrative structure underlying diverse surface content One problem: ( concerned with vagueness in the specification of functions) Not all cases are clear cut. One question: why there should be precisely thirty one functions and seven dramatis personae? Because: seven characters are reasonable but thirty one has no obvious explanation. Conclusion Anyhow, Vladimir Propp is one of the greatest formalist scholar. Dostoevsky said that all Russian writers have started from Gogols Coat; and we should conclude that all European structuralists have started from Propps Morphology of the Folktale. And even today — as a father of structuralism — he is the subject matter of discussions of post-structural philosophers and critics such as Todorov and Kristeva. * * Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp Владимир Яковлевич Пропп By Liu Xiaoli Zhao Xuexia Propp Narrative structure Criticism Vladimir Propp (1895 - 1970) Russian philologist and structuralist ?(transitional) who analysed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements. born and educated in St. Petersburg Morphology of the Folk Tale (published in 1928), represented a breakthrough in both folkloristics and morphology ,and influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss, A. J. Greimas and Roland Barthes. 1. Functions There were just thirty-one generic functions (narratemes“) in the traditional Russian folk tale, and the functions are displayed in unvarying sequence while not all are present in every ta