 His "Morphology of the Folk Tale" was published in Russian in 1928 and influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, though it received little attention from Western scholars until it was translated into English in the 1950s.In the Afanasyev's collection of Russian fairy tales, Propp found a limited number of plot elements or "functions" that constructed all.These elements occurred in a standard, consistent sequence.