In structural analysis Dundes uses motifeme which he adapted from Kenneth Pike for the smallest unit that is described by Propp as function, the sequential and stable structures, and he analyses these units by using emic units, specific to culture, and Claude Lévi-Strauss’ binary opposition theory. Therefore, in this essay Dundes’ distinctive approach on structuralism and psychoanalysis and their relations will be presented. Also, he not only uses the signifier plane as has been defined by Ferdinand de Saussure but he also uses psychoanalysis on the signified plane, in other words, while analyzing the meaning and context of folklore. Dundes uses structuralism according to the Russian structuralists, especially Vladimir Propp’s morphology, Czech structuralists and Claude Lévi-Strauss’ analysis of myth. The aim of this essay is to present two main approaches that Dundes used to analyze the folkloric material and to get the meaning, aim and function of folklore. Had limited access as they were published in foreign journals and special issues, were collected by Simon J.īronner posthumously in The Meaning of Folklore (2007). Various essays of American folklorist Alan Dundes, which he wrote between the 1960s and 2000s and
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