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The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
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Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood. Bringing together 35 of the best versions of the tale, from the Brothers Grimm to Anne Sexton, Zipes uses the tales to explore questions of Western culture, sexism and politics.
Paperback, Second Edition, 408 pages
Published
September 20th 1993
by Routledge
(first published 1983)
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This is not a book for children, but for those who have a serious interest in the socio-political history of folk tales- Red Riding Hood tales in particular. I am a fan of Jack Zipes' body of work. I feel this early piece of academic writing is not his best, though it is the most comprehensive on this tale. My favorite work by Zipes is "Fairy Tale As Myth: Myth As Fairy Tale" where he examines how the values transmitted through fairytales have been accepted as myth in our culture- for...more
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"Little Red Riding Hood" has to be one of the most famous fairy tales in existence. Everyone seems to know, though very few people seem to know what it is really about.
It's about sex.
In this book, Jack Zipes examines the history of tale, showing how it progessed from a story about a smart girl to a story about a foolish girl who may have had it coming. Additionally, Zipes has collected several different versions of the tale, the earlies one from 1697 and the l...more
It's about sex.
In this book, Jack Zipes examines the history of tale, showing how it progessed from a story about a smart girl to a story about a foolish girl who may have had it coming. Additionally, Zipes has collected several different versions of the tale, the earlies one from 1697 and the l...more
In theory, this is a really interesting book. Zipes's argument at the beginning of the anthology was the most interesting. I'm so burnt out on Little Red Riding Hood now, though. All of the stories started to blend together by the end and I wasn't sure of the point of it all.
Different ways to look at folk tales that are useful in teaching residents psychotherapy--these are not new ideas, just different ways of looking at old ideas
The first part of this book is an approximately sixty-page essay on the history and evolution of the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The second part of the book is a chronological collection of several different versions of the story.
I mostly enjoyed the somewhat dense essay, skipping to the back along the way to read the corresponding stories. I especially enjoyed the bits on the story pre-Perrault. I enjoyed it much less toward the end, when the author's started imposing his feminis...more
I mostly enjoyed the somewhat dense essay, skipping to the back along the way to read the corresponding stories. I especially enjoyed the bits on the story pre-Perrault. I enjoyed it much less toward the end, when the author's started imposing his feminis...more
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Jack David Zipes is an American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their linguistic roots, and argued that they have a "socialization function". According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the wo...more
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Jack David Zipes is an American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their linguistic roots, and argued that they have a "socialization function". According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the wo...more
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