Baśń bez granic. O Czerwonym Kapturku we współczesnej literaturze i poza nią
Fairy tale without borders. On Little Red Riding Hood in contemporary literature and beyond

Author(s): Joanna Wawryk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale which has been functioning in countless versions, retellings and their translations. In a wider perspective, it is a text that undergoes actualizations and transformations in contemporary culture. The present article aims to diagnose the current situation of the fairy tale about Little Red Riding Hood in literature, and to indicate other spheres in which it functions. The main research data are contemporary works that re-interpret traditional fairy tales. A context for them is provided both by earlier texts (i.a. Little Red Riding Hood in the version by Ch. Perrault and Brothers Grimm), and by current extraliterary phenomena. The post-modern variations of the story offer its new readings, which has been demonstrated, among others, on the basis of works belonging to different genres. In the case of fairy tale, an important matter is its dual addressee (an adult and a child), therefore the works dedicated to the youngest recipients have been referred to. In order to validate the thesis on the borderlessness of fairy tale, numerous extraliterary domains of high and popular culture have been presented, where references to the story about Little Red Riding Hood can be identified.

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