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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... London 1773-1776 103 7. Seducing Paris 1776-1782 119 8. Comic Release 1783-1785 137 9. Revising Past and Future 1786-1790 153 Notes 169 Sources 175 Index 181 PREFACE A quarter - century ago , I compiled an Introduction: A Life in Laughter.
... London and Paris , and for pamphlets for fun or propa- ganda at home and abroad . In journalism , humor gave him a competi- tive edge and in propaganda , a shield for both attack and defense . At fifteen , impersonating a feisty widow ...
... London newspapers to ridicule the British government's American policies , as well as the 1780s in Paris newspa- pers for such whimsical notions as saving daylight to conserve candles . In conversation and correspondence , Franklin used ...
... London roommate , James Ralph , found work only as a rural schoolmaster . " Unwilling to have it known that he once was so meanly employ'd , he chang'd his Name , & did me the Honour to as- sume mine . " 12 This is the wry irony of the ...
... London another year , confident that his guile in diplomacy could prevent open rebellion . But Secretary Lord Hillsborough made matters worse by rejecting still another of Franklin's petitions as rude , " without having read a Word of ...
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 |