Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook

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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] 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