Simple Forms

Legend, Saga, Myth, Riddle, Saying, Case, Memorabile, Fairytale, Joke

By: Andre Jolles, Peter J. Schwartz (Translator)

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Paperback | 3 November 2016 | Edition Number 1

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A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time

Legend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: Andre Jolles understands each of these nine 'simple forms' as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world and thus as a basic structuring principle of literary narrative. Long recognized as a classic of genre theory, Simple Forms (1929) has been called a significant precursor to structuralist and narratological approaches to literature.

Like Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale,with which it is often compared, Jolles's work is not only foundational for the later development of genre theory but of continuing relevance today. A major influence on literary genre studies since its publication, Simple Forms is now available for the first time in English.

About the Author

ANDRE JOLLES (1874-1946) was a scholar of ethnology, folklore and aesthetics, and is considered by many to be a precursor of structuralism.

Industry Reviews

"A fundamental contribution to the endless, contentious, productive dialogue between morphology and history. Andre Jolles, the interlocutor of Aby Warburg and Johan Huizinga, is still provoking us with his work. The long overdue translation of a classic." --Carlo Ginzburg "Simple Forms can be counted among the standard works of scholarship." --Hans-Georg Gadamer "Jolles's versatility was an inevitable result of his extraordinary receptivity and omnivorous interest in all aspects of the study of art and culture and of his talent for absorbing and processing things, and for combining disparate material." --Johan Huizinga "It is a cause for celebration to have Jolles's classic Simple Forms in English ... a great book, always stimulating, and exhilarating in its speculative leaps, its shrewd insights, its wilder guesses." --Fredric Jameson, from the Foreword

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