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Little Red Riding Hood

Undoubtedly one of the best known and most popular of all tales in the world, “Little Red Riding Hood” tells of a young girl who goes through the woods to ...

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Literature, Children's literature studies
Length:
374 words
Illustration(s):
1

... Tomi Ungerer 's “Little Red Riding Hood” even marries the wolf. Rewrites of the famous tale share an ironic tone that challenges the authority of traditions and the conventions of the genre. The healthy changes predicted by Jack Zipes in his two seminal editions of The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood are happening now, and the little girl is not done surprising us. Little Red Riding Hood . Little Red Riding Hood encounters the wolf in sheep's clothing; illustration by Walter Crane from Little Red Riding Hood (London: Routledge,...

‘Little Red Riding Hood’

‘Little Red Riding Hood’   Reference library

Jack Zipes

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
Literature
Length:
918 words
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1

...in the world, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ will most likely undergo interesting changes in the future, and the girl and her story will certainly never be eliminated by the wolf. ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ The curious wolf seeks to know where Little Red Riding Hood is going in Gustave Doré ’s famous illustration to Charles Perrault ’s tale, published in Les Contes de Perrault (1867). Jack Zipes Beckett, Sandra , Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross Cultural Contexts (2008). Dundes, Alan (ed.), Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook ...


         Little Red Riding-Hood

Little Red Riding-Hood   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
Literature, Children's literature studies
Length:
905 words

...Little Red Riding-Hood A story first recorded by Perrault in his Contes de ma mère l’Oye ( 1697 ) as Le Petit Chaperon rouge . In Perrault’s narrative, a pretty village girl, who bears her nickname on account of the red chaperon (hood) that she wears, is sent by her mother to take food to her sick grandmother, who lives in another village. As she is going through a wood, Little Red Riding-Hood meets a wolf who asks where she is going; when she tells him, the wolf runs ahead and eats up Red Riding Hood’s grandmother. Pretending to be the old lady, the...

‘Little Red Riding Hood’

‘Little Red Riding Hood’   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
859 words

...tales in the world, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ will most likely undergo interesting changes in the future, and the girl and her story will certainly never be eliminated by the wolf. JZ Jack Zipes Beckett, Sandra , Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross Cultural Contexts (2008). Dundes, Alan (ed.), Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook (1989). Jones, Steven Swann , ‘ On Analyzing Fairy Tales: “Little Red Riding Hood” Revisited ’, Western Folklore , 46 (1987). Mieder, Wolfgang , ‘ Survival Forms of “Little Red Riding Hood” in Modern Society ’,...

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood  

Undoubtedly one of the best known and most popular of all tales in the world, “Little Red Riding Hood” tells of a young girl who goes through the woods to ...
15 Children’s Books

15 Children’s Books   Reference library

Andrea Immel

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
5,066 words
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

...by minimal text. The folded strip can also advance the narrative, as in Aliquis’s The Flight of the Old Woman Who Was Tossed Up in a Basket ( 1844 ). *Shaped books are those where the text block is die-cut in the shape of the figure on the cover, such as Lydia Very’s Little Red Riding Hood ( 1863 ). To create changing pictures, flap-transformation and split-leaf books have leaves that are divided vertically into graduated pages, as in John Goodall’s Paddy Pork series, or horizontally into multiple sections as in Walter Trier’s 8192 Crazy People ( c...

English, Scottish, and Anglo-Irish Family Names

English, Scottish, and Anglo-Irish Family Names   Reference library

Peter McClure and Patrick Hanks

Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2022
Subject:
Names studies
Length:
13,029 words
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

... would be thus be synonymous with cheeseman ‘cheese maker’. However, all the name tells us is that the man was associated with cheese; he may have been so nicknamed because he liked it as a food, or made it, or both. The point comes into sharper focus with names like blade , hood , lace , and mantel , where there is a high probability that they were nicknames given to men who wore or used those items in a distinctive fashion, whether or not in some cases they also made or sold them. Migration from England and Scotland to North America The colonial...

Bye Bye Red Riding Hood

Bye Bye Red Riding Hood  

(Piroska e farkas, film: Canada/Hungary 1988),an updated and remixed adaptation which combines elements of Perrault's version with elements of the Grimms, and adds a feminist inflection. From ...
Frederick W. N. Bayley

Frederick W. N. Bayley  

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(1808–53), English writer, poet, and journalist.Aside from writing travel books, he was the author of Comic Nursery Rhymes (1846), which contain hilarious parodies of ‘Bluebeard’, ‘*Little Red Riding ...
Ellen Steiber

Ellen Steiber  

(1955– ), American writer of fantasy novellas with fairy-tale themes.Japanese folklore permeates Shadow of the Fox (1994) and ‘The Fox Wife’ (1995), illuminating the boundaries between husbands and ...
Gwen Strauss

Gwen Strauss  

(1963– ), Haitian-born American writer and poet.In Trails of Stone (1989), a unique collection of poetry inspired by classical fairy tales and illustrated by Anthony Browne, Strauss gives each poem ...
Juan Goytisolo

Juan Goytisolo  

(1931– ), Spanish novelistwhose works are written in a realistic but critical manner. Goytisolo is known for denouncing the bourgeoisie, the Catholic Church, capitalism, and other aspects of Spanish ...
Le Petit Chaperon rouge

Le Petit Chaperon rouge  

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Literature
One of Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé, the familiar ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, without a happy ending.
James Finn Garner

James Finn Garner  

(1960– ), American writer,whose adaptations of fairy tales and fables satirize the language and politics of political correctness. Garner's first collection, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, ...
little

little  

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Battle of Little Bighorn a battle in which General George Custer and his forces were defeated by Sioux warriors on 25 June 1876, popularly known as Custer's Last Stand. It took place in the valley of ...
Little Tom Thumb

Little Tom Thumb  

A tale by Charles Perrault published in the Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories or Tales of Past Times, 1697), is an amalgam of folk-tale motifs. An early literary ...
schools of folk-narrative research

schools of folk-narrative research  

The different theories and schools of thought that have attempted to explain the historical development of folk narrative date back to the early collections and analyses of folk literature in ...
Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès  

(1861–1938), influential French film producer and director of numerous films,many of which were adaptations of classical fairy tales. He was the accidental inventor of trick photography and thus what ...
Luisa Valenzuela

Luisa Valenzuela  

(1938– ), of Argentinian origin,one of the most important writers in contemporary South American literature. She has produced a good number of novels, a few plays, and several short stories. ...
Barbara G. Walker

Barbara G. Walker  

(1930– ),American author of feminist books such as The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (1983), The Crone (1985), and The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects (1988). In ...

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