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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... Almanac , for newspapers in 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 ...
... almanac to stay in business . He impersonated the faux astrologer Poor Richard Saunders , whose mad antics laughed competitors off the field to make Franklin's almanac Philadelphia's fa- vorite . The lively proverbs on prudence , thrift ...
... Almanac . The gates open and the crowd dashes in , except for Poor Richard , who , moved by his own words , decides not to buy a new suit after all . The satire of Poor Richard fooled such sharp critics as Mark Twain and D. H. Lawrence ...
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 |