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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... writing and that his topics were timely , that his models were already familiar to his readers , and that his basic theme was how abusing common sense led to perpetual self - delusion . Selecting Franklin's humor must be subjective ...
... writing eccentrics like the gossip Celia Shortface or the playboy Anthony Afterwit , whose acerbic complaints would ignite a chain reac- tion from other correspondents , all likewise impersonated by Franklin himself . In the 1760s and ...
... writing in perspective . Al- though the narrative breaks off at 1757 , on the threshold of his career in diplomacy , its aim and tone were colored by the succeeding thirty years , when as elder statesman he helped engineer the ...
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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 |