Re-membering Red Riding Hood: situated solidarities between Ireland and Uganda

The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood

Researchers have long been fascinated by the strong continuities evident in the oral traditions associated with different cultures. According to the 'historic-geographic' school, it is possible to classify similar tales into "international types" and trace them back to their original archetypes. However, critics argue that folktale traditions are fundamentally fluid, and that most international...

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...

Modeling problems of identity in Little Red Riding Hood

This paper argues that the problem of identity is a critical challenge in agents which are able to reason about stories. The Xapagy architecture has been built from scratch to perform narrative reasoning and relies on a somewhat unusual approach to represent instances and identity. We illustrate the approach by a representation of the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the architecture, with a ...

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 ...

Re-membering the Body