RED&RIDING HOOD
"The main early records for "Little Red Riding Hood" come in two
literary versions. The first is "Le petit chaperon rouge" by
Charles Perrault (1628-1703), published in 1697 under his son's
name (P. D'Armancour, who was then only ten) in a book entitled
Histoires ou contes du temps passe and subtitled Contes de ma Mere
l'Oye; the second is "Rotkappchen," published in 1812 by
the Brothers Grimm in the first volume of the first edition
of their Kinder und Hausmdrchen (KHM). Of less value to folklorists
is Ludwig Tieck's (1773-1853) drama Tragodie vom Leben und Tod des kleinen
Rotkippchens (1800).
What weight should we attach to these works of literature as versions
of "Little Red Riding Hood"? Alan Dundes leaves no room for doubt that
he prefers oral over written versions. Indeed, in his foreword he
criticizes even Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson for their failures to set
proper priorities in this regard. According to him, they relied too
heavily in their typing of the tale upon Perrault and Grimm without
attending to "authentic oral versions of the tale which reveal
important details not contained in either Perrault's or
the Grimms' accounts." He adds, "One of the aims of the present
casebook is to demonstrate the nature of the oral folktale from which the
Perrault and Grimm versions of the story surely erive."
In an essay later in the casebook Dundes solidifies his position:
"It is well to keep in mind that fairy tales are first and foremost
an oral form. So from that point of view, any written version is
suspect."
From: A Fairy Tale from before Fairy Tales: Egbert of Liège's "De puella a lupellis seruata" and the
Medieval Background of "Little Red Riding Hood"
by Jan M. Ziolkowski : Speculum, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1992), p. 552
PS Alan Dundes в этом случае, несомненно, прав: исходным должен предполагаться устный текст.
Но - только в случае, если речь идет об изначально фольклорной сказке.
Однако, в основе народной сказки позднего времени может быть и вполне авторский текст и реальные
или вымышленные неким автором события - и хорошо бы, если бы такой тест был обнаружен.
literary versions. The first is "Le petit chaperon rouge" by
Charles Perrault (1628-1703), published in 1697 under his son's
name (P. D'Armancour, who was then only ten) in a book entitled
Histoires ou contes du temps passe and subtitled Contes de ma Mere
l'Oye; the second is "Rotkappchen," published in 1812 by
the Brothers Grimm in the first volume of the first edition
of their Kinder und Hausmdrchen (KHM). Of less value to folklorists
is Ludwig Tieck's (1773-1853) drama Tragodie vom Leben und Tod des kleinen
Rotkippchens (1800).
What weight should we attach to these works of literature as versions
of "Little Red Riding Hood"? Alan Dundes leaves no room for doubt that
he prefers oral over written versions. Indeed, in his foreword he
criticizes even Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson for their failures to set
proper priorities in this regard. According to him, they relied too
heavily in their typing of the tale upon Perrault and Grimm without
attending to "authentic oral versions of the tale which reveal
important details not contained in either Perrault's or
the Grimms' accounts." He adds, "One of the aims of the present
casebook is to demonstrate the nature of the oral folktale from which the
Perrault and Grimm versions of the story surely erive."
In an essay later in the casebook Dundes solidifies his position:
"It is well to keep in mind that fairy tales are first and foremost
an oral form. So from that point of view, any written version is
suspect."
From: A Fairy Tale from before Fairy Tales: Egbert of Liège's "De puella a lupellis seruata" and the
Medieval Background of "Little Red Riding Hood"
by Jan M. Ziolkowski : Speculum, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1992), p. 552
PS Alan Dundes в этом случае, несомненно, прав: исходным должен предполагаться устный текст.
Но - только в случае, если речь идет об изначально фольклорной сказке.
Однако, в основе народной сказки позднего времени может быть и вполне авторский текст и реальные
или вымышленные неким автором события - и хорошо бы, если бы такой тест был обнаружен.