![]() ![]() ![]() While both Perrault and the Grimms have appearances, Zipes includes lesser well known versions. The stories collected in the volumne are perhaps worth more than the essays. I already knew that and still some of those illustrations. (This essay appeared inÄon't Bet on the Prince Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England). He does a good job of making the reader think twice about many of the illustrations. His second essay concerns how LRH is shown in the illustrations of the books. He shows what that says about our culture, noting when the blame for the "rape" shifts to the victim. He agrues that the tale moved from one of ritual to one about rape. The first examines the literary history of the tales, tracing the changes made to it and putting forth theories why those changes were made. ![]() Additionally, Zipes has collected several different versions of the tale, the earlies one from 1697 and the latest being from 1990. ![]() 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. Everyone seems to know, though very few people seem to know what it is really about. "Little Red Riding Hood" has to be one of the most famous fairy tales in existence. ![]()
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