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  • Record Number: 17319
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Ziolkowski , Jan M.
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  • Title: A Fairy Tale from before Fairy Tales: Egbert of Liege’s "De puella a lupellis seruata" and the Medieval Background of "Little Red Riding Hood" [The author analyzes Egbert’s eleventh-century Latin poem as an early analogue to the famous fairy tale about a girl and a wolf. Folklorists differ on the value of medieval texts for their studies, because most see them as too literary to be pure representations of an oral tradition and yet too early to qualify as literary fairy tales. Egbert claims an oral origin to his poem, which appears in a schoolbook for students learning Latin. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Speculum 67, 3 (July 1992): Pages 549 - 575.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Animals in Literature Children in Literature Colors- Symbolism Egbert of Liege, Author Fables, Literary Genre Folk Tales Folklore Latin Poetry Literature- Verse Oral Tradition Pedagogy School Texts Transmission of Texts Wolves in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 11
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00387134