Benjamin Franklin's Humor" Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our everyday culture and shapers of our identities. In this lively work, Jack Zipes explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century and examines the ideological relationship of classic fairy tales to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most "mythic" articulation in America. Consequently, Zipes sees Walt Disney's Snow White as an expression of American male individualism, film and literary interpretations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American myths, and Robert Bly's Iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales. This book will change forever the way we look at the fairy tales of our youth. |
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... and Gray Laughing Franklin on Franklin Jefferson on Jefferson Lincoln on Lincoln Mark Twain Laughing Washington on Washington The Wit and Wisdom of the Founding Fathers CO1411140ED IKOM 111E IKONI IDO Zall shows how Franklin employed.
... father of his countrymen , Franklin was their foxy grandpa , the designated humorist they could always rely on for a sharp saying or merry tale with the " Magical power " to cool the heat and dispel " melancholy fumes . " 2 Franklin ...
... Father Abraham , who preaches to a crowd waiting for a bazaar to open . Old Father Abraham preaches on prudence and thrift , taking his texts not from the Bible but from Poor Richard's Almanac . The gates open and the crowd dashes in ...
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Contents
Silence Dogood 17221723 | 7 |
Philadelphias Poor Richard 17291735 | 23 |
Philadelphias Poor Richard 17331748 | 43 |
Philadelphias Poor Richard 17481757 | 61 |
Making Friends Overseas 17571774 | 81 |
Losing London 17731776 | 99 |
Seducing Paris 17761782 | 115 |