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ashton
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(10/25/05 6:33 pm)
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Little Red Riding Hood
Hi, im doing an essay paper about the short stories that was given by our prof. one of the story is about angela carter "the werewolf". i know it is a derivation of Little red riding hood. but i need more ideas for the thesis of the paper. any suggestions?
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(10/25/05 11:00 pm)
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old versions
I haven't read Carter's story, so I don't know whether this would help or not. But there are lots of old versions of Little Red Riding Hood that are quite different from familiar versions. Some of them are funny, and she outwits the monster and defeats it.
Here are some links to old versions. There may be a "Red Riding Hood Project" also.
<a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html">Red Riding Hood variants</a> -- Type
333, <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html#france">Old French Red Riding Hood
version<br>
</a></small><a href="http://www.hellhorror.com/werewolf/folklores/hood.php">Another old
Red Riding Hood version with werewolf</a><br>
<a href="http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrPathNeedles.html">Terri Windling on
old versions</a></small></small></font></p>
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neverossa
Registered User
(10/26/05 5:41 am)
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Re: old versions
Give a look to this book:
Zipes, Jack, ed. The Trials and Tribulations of Little
Red Riding Hood. New York: Routledge, 1993
There are several version of LRRH, and a useful long introduction by ZIPES, in which the author deals with the different peceptions of the werewolf (a symbol of nature and fertility; a devilish "friend" of witches).
On werewolves if you have time check these books:
Baring-Gould, Sabine. The Book of Were-Wolves. (it's an old one - I think written in the nineteenth century).
Otten, Charlotte F, Ed. A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture.
Sorry I cannot tell what I think of them, because I'm going to read them this week!
The location of Carter's tale :
She places it in a northern village and she mentions Walpurgisnacht. The night of the witches.
The most famous European mountains for witches and sabbath were the Broken (in Germany) and the Blakulla in Sweden.
Good luck!
Edited by: neverossa at: 10/26/05 5:42 am
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evil little pixie
Registered User
(10/26/05 9:07 am)
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Re: old versions
In case you haven't already found this page:
www.surlalunefairytales.c...index.html
Good luck!
Edited by: evil little pixie at: 10/26/05 9:08 am
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beautifulstars
Unregistered User
(10/26/05 6:33 pm)
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little red
well, i did a pretty close study recently on 'little red riding hood' focusing specifically on carter's trilogy of llrh tales -- 'company of wolves,' 'the werewolf,' and 'wolf-alice.' between the three tales, there's a distinct movement from the traditional-written tale (not to say the original oral one) in which she's not autonomous at all, to 'the werewolf' in which she controls her destiny and defeats the wolf, to 'company of wolves' where she controls her destiny by joining the wolf, and 'wolf-alice' where she controls her destiny and gives a big kick in the teeth to society by becoming the wolf, and saving another popular monster, the vampire, from society as well. it's interesting upon close examination, anyway. if you need to know any more of my research, or suggestions, you can reach me at trembling_blue_stars@hotmail.com, and i would also suggest reading Catherine Orenstein's 'Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked.'
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