Alan Dundes continues his exploration of well-loved fairy tales with this casebook on one of the best-known of them all: Little Red Riding Hood. Following versions of the tale by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, the essays by an international group of scholars provide an impressive cross-section of theoretical approaches. [From the back cover]
Author(s): Dundes, Alan (ed.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Year: 1989
Language: English
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Pages: 251
City: Madison, WI
Tags: Little Red Riding Hood
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Little Red Riding Hood 3
Charles Perrault
Little Red Cap (Rotkiippchen) 7
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Story of Grandmother 13
Paul Delarue
The Story of Grandaunt Tiger 21
Wolfram Eberhard
Is 'Tittle Red Riding Hood" a Myth? 64
Georg Hiising
Little Red Riding Hood or The Little May Queen 71
P. Saintyves [E. Nourry]
Is Little Red Riding Hood Wearing a Liberty Cap?
On Presumable Connotations in Tieck
and in Grimm 89
Hans-Wolf Jager
"Little Red Riding Hood" as Male Creation
and Projection 121
Jack Zipes
The Concept of Childhood and Children's
Folktales: Test Case—"Little Red Riding Hood" 129
Zohar Shavit
Fairy Tale and Dream: "Little Red Riding Hood" 159
Geza Roheim
Little Red Cap and the Pubertal Girl 168
Bruno Bettelheim
Interpreting 'Tittle Red Riding Hood"
Psychoanalytically
Alan Dundes
192
Suggestions for Further Reading on "Little
Red Riding Hood": A Selected Bibliography 239
Index 249
