期刊名称：Tirant: Butlletí informatiu i bibliogràfic de literatura de cavalleries
印刷版ISSN：1579-7422
出版年度：2012
卷号：0
期号：15
页码：135-154
出版社：UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA. ESPANYA
摘要：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.
关键词：Amadís de Gaula; books of chivalry; index; motif; plot; Propp.
