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Charles Perrault and the Evolution of “Little Red Riding Hood”
- Marvels & Tales
- Wayne State University Press
- Volume 30, Number 2, 2016
- pp. 167-190
- 10.13110/marvelstales.30.2.0167
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I examine the place of Perrault’s “Le Petit Chaperon rouge” within the tradition of “Little Red Riding Hood” (ATU 333). I address the thematic links between Perrault’s conte and the oral texts and consider the “Little Red Riding Hood” theme up to the present day. Overall, I tease out the red thread connecting Perrault’s text with the oral variants of yore and the present-day recreations and make the case that Perrault’s literary touches launched a hitherto obscure oral theme into its present spell of multimedia celebrity