英文摘要 |
As picture books, telling stories using continuous pictures, became popular since 19th century, numerous versions of Little Red Riding Hood have been published so far. In these versions, illustrators left their thoughts and feelings using pictures after reading Little Red Riding Hood, and were very likely inspired and affected by the interpretive perspectives of folklorists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, feminists, children educators in recent centuries. This research takes the Devour scenarios of different versions of Little Red Riding Hood as its research object, does reference carding, and analyzes different interpretations in the ''Devour'' scenarios, attempting to explore the graphic language behind these interpretive perspectives. Five perspectives are discovered including Sexual suggestiveness, Regression and rebirth, timing transition, Greedy monster, and horrible mother. Itis found that sleeping together, the vessel breaks upside down, red lips, and red high heels all have sexual connotations. Pregnancy, profile chart of abdominal cavity, Caesarean section, represent regression and rebirth. The picture of food and the wild of wolf represent the Greedy monster. However, we can only find the proof from Bernadette Watts’s picture to represent timing transition. Moreover, the perspective of horrible mother transferred in other ways in graphic language, by the symbols of great paintings and the picture of wolf in clothes. It is Aalso found that using flowers and love poem in graphic language to show up the principle of joy to older female. |