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System Builders | Klein
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Development Dates | 1974-1977 | |
Languages | English | |
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An exact model of V. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale, formulated in and generated by the Meta-symbolic Simulation system. Program listing included, with comments that references to page numbers in Propp's book. Also contains myth texts derived from a model of the ""Three Part Inventions"" chapter of Levi-Strauss', THE RAW AND THE COOKED. Comments from the author For historical reasons, the 1974 tech report is significant-- in December 1974, I mailed a copy to Claude Lévi-Strauss, whom I had never met. This led to his obtaining a visiting post for me in Paris at L'Ecole des hautes études en Science Sociale in 1976-- to work on modelling the thought processes he used in producing Mythologiques. A revised French version of the paper, with a revised Propp model and an revised model for generating the 'double twist' transformation in the ""Three Part Inventions"" chapter of Levi-Strauss' The Raw & the Cooked was published in 1976. Parts of this French version are in English: a. the full set of rules for the Propp model are listed, with explanatory comments in English. b. the texts of the generated Russian tales are in English. |
Sheldon Klein, J. F. Aeschlimann, M. A. Appelbaum, D. F. Balsiger, E. J. Curtis, M. Foster, S. D. Kalish, S. J. Kamin, Y.-D. Lee, L. A. Price, and D. F. Salsieder.
Modelling Propp and Lèvi-Strauss in a Meta-symbolic Simulation System.
Tech. Report 226, University of Wisconsin, Computer Science, Wisconsin, 1974.