The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood by Jack D. Zipes

In making his case, Zipes considers a wide range of fascinating examples, including fairy tales told, collected, and written by women in the nineteenth century Catherine Breillat's film adaptation of Perrault's 'Bluebeard' and contemporary fairy-tale drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that critique canonical print versions. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation in an ever-growing variety of media. its on amazon but will probably be at your local library.In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold-and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. it has all the main versions of the tale in it and then discusses the symbolism within them and how that relates to the society of the time. The best book ever on the deconstruction of the RRH tales and their corresponding social aspects is The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood by Jack Zipes. D then there was this one (the first literary translation for the upper class), then the grimm one and then a whole bunch of cheesy sacharine ones, then there were the rebelious ones of the 30s, 70s, 80s and now.

The original tale was a rural french oral tradition in the late medieval period told by peasants for peasants. Illustration inspired by Gustave Dore who was the first to illustrate Perraults tales.Įdit: just thought id paste this in coz some people have bin asking:

Organic shapes, french court in bg., fleur dis lis pattern on dress. Red and the wolf stand very close as oppossed to the Grimm tale where they are at opposite sides of the composition. symbolic of the debaucherous nature of the court. dark humour intended for the french court and not particulaly for children as the 'concept of the child' was not yet realised. Major Project for my Honours thesis, changes in the red riding hood tale over time influenced by the society they came fromįrench red riding hood is a bad arse XD 1697

The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood by Jack D. Zipes