SOURCE: “The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood,” in The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood, Routledge, 1993, pp. 17-88.
In this excerpt, Zipes discusses the origins of the “Little Red Riding Hood” tale and analyzes how Perrault transforms it for a bourgeois-aristocratic audience.
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