Modeling problems of identity in Little Red Riding Hood

Undertones in “Little Red Riding Hood”: The Relationship Between Childhood Innocence and Adult Knowledge

The story of Little Red Riding Hood is not just one of a little girl bringing simple biscuits and wine to a sick grandmother. Rather, the tale chronicles a young girl's trip into adulthood, the woods functioning as the hazy middle ground between being an innocent child and a knowing adult. Bruno Bettelheim, in The Uses of Enchantment, examines the story of Red Riding Hood's trip as culminating ...

To appear in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 1 2 3 Oral Fairy Tale or Literary Fake ? Investigating the Origins 4 of Little Red Riding Hood Using Phylogenetic Network

22 23 The evolution of fairy tales often involves complex interactions between oral and 24 literary traditions, which can be difficult to tease apart when investigating their 25 origins. Here, we show how computer-assisted stemmatology can be productively 26 applied to this problem, focusing on a long-standing controversy in fairy tale 27 scholarship: did Little Red Riding Hood originate as an ...

Episodi Logi Meets Little Red Riding Hood : A Comprehensive, Natural Representation for Language Understanding

Storytelling Variants: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood

A small number of variants of a widely disseminated folktale is surveyed, and then analyzed in an attempt to determine how such variants can emerge while staying within the conventions of the genre. The study follows the classification of types and motifs contained in the Index of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. The paper's main contribution is the characterization of four kinds of type interac...

Geographic distribution of an open access e-journal

Spatial analysis of usage data for a new open-access library and information science e-journal indicates that within the US the geographic distribution of page views is similar to the geographic distribution of the sponsoring program’s alumni locations. Outside the US, the geographic distribution of page views was greatest in Europe, followed by Asia, Africa and South America. The top two most ...