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FOLKLORE CONTEXT OF LITERARY TALES ABOUT LITTLE RED HOOD

Folklore Studies,Literary Сriticism , UDC: 398.21; 82-34. DOI: 10.25688/2619-0656.2023.11.09

Authors

  • Alpatov Sergei Victorovich Doctor of Philology
  • Zaitseva Irina Vitalievna

Annotation

The article is devoted to the study of the comparative aspect of folklore-literary interactions, aimed both at establishing genetic and contextual connections between literary and traditional versions of ATU 333 Little Red Riding Hood, and at identifying universal mechanisms for conceptualizing reality, as well as general stylistic techniques for embodying archetypal semantics and symbolism in folklore and literature. The analyzed motives of initiation, cannibalism and escape from the evil find regular correspondences in the texts of demonological prose about the trials of sexually mature youth, which helps to isolate the basic folklore and subsequent literary layers of the semantics of the popular plot of the European fairy tale: the mythological narrative about the symbolic forms of female initiation is transformed into an instructive story about the dangers of adult life and the consequences of one’s own indiscretion.
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comparative studies , folklore , literature , Little Red Riding Hood

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Alpatov, S. V. & Zaitseva, I. V. (2023). FOLKLORE CONTEXT OF LITERARY TALES ABOUT LITTLE RED HOOD Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", Russian and comparative studies, 143–155. https://doi.org/10.25688/2619-0656.2023.11.09
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