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Levorato, Alessandra. 2003. Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition: A Linguistic Analysis of Old and New Story-Telling. 248 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
ISBN
1403907889

Annotation

This study of the significance of word choice and characterization in different versions of the fairy tale 'Little Red Riding Hood' from the seventeenth century to the present, reveals the sexist agenda of the early tales and the critique of this agenda by the more contemporary tales.