| p. xxv:
| In botany, the term "morphology" means the study of the component parts
of a plant, of their relationship to each other and to the whole--in other
words, the study of a plant's structure.
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| p. 5:
| The accuracy of all further study depends upon the accuracy of classification. But although classification serves as the foundation of all investigation,
it must itself be the result of certain preliminary study. What we see,
however, is precisely the reverse: the majority of researchers
begin with classification, imposing it upon the material from
without and not extracting it from the material itself.
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| p. 20:
| The names of the dramatis personae change (as well as the attributes of
each), but neither their actions nor functions change. From this we can
draw the inferences that a tale often attributes identical actions to various personages. This makes possible the study of the tale according to the functions of
its dramatis personae.
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| p. 21-24:
| Function is understood as an act of a character, defined from the
point of view of its significance for the course of the action.
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| The observations cited may
be briefly formulated in the following manner:
| 1.
| Functions of characters serve as stable, constant elements
in a tale, independently of how and by whom they are fulfilled.
They constitute the fundamental components of a tale.
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| 2.
| The numbers of functions to the fairy tale is limited.
Freedom with this sequence is restricted by very narrow
limits which can be exactly formulated.
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| 3.
| The sequences of functions is always identical.
Since we are studying tales according to the functions of
their dramatis personae, the accumulation of material can be
suspended as soon as it becomes apparent that the new tales
considered present no new functions.
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| 4.
| All fairy tales are one type in regard to their structures.
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| p. 67:
| [...] it is always possible to be governed by the principle of defining a
function according to its consequences.
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