Recycling Red Riding Hood [Paperback]

Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retelling of the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature.Sandra Beckett, PhD, is Professor of French at brock University. She attended the Universite' d'Aix-Marseilles and received her PhD. in French Studies from the University of Manitoba. Beckett's book is a welcome addition not only to fairy-tale scholarship, but also to the study of intertextuality and postmodernist play, whether thay play is textual or pictorial. Cathy Preston, Marvels & TalesIntroduction; Chapter 1 Reminiscence and Allusion; Chapter 2 Retelling Images; Chapter 3 Fractured Fairy-Tale Games; Chapter 4 Upside Down, Inside Out, and Backwards; Chapter 5 Continuations and Post-LRRH Stories; Chapter 6 Metafictive Play; Chapter 7 Fairy-Tale Salads; Chapter 8 Expansion;USCopyright ? 2002 by Sandra L. Beckett