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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... Later , Franklin directed his tal- ents toward serving his country . Regardless of its origin , the best of Benjamin Franklin's humor tran- scends its initial purpose and continues to evoke undying laughter at shared human experiences ...
... Later , Franklin directed his tal- ents toward serving his country . Regardless of its origin , the best of Benjamin Franklin's humor tran- scends its initial purpose and continues to evoke undying laughter at shared human experiences ...
... later for his own Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's 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 ...
... later Jonathan Swift — that had been proven popular . He also parodied the style or burlesqued the form of legal docu- ments , even official newspapers . Some of his jokes were so familiar that Franklin needed only to allude to them for ...
... later , as he signed the treaty with France that financed the Revolution , he wore the same suit of spotted Manchester velvet that he had worn in the Cockpit . Commenting on his " Character , " Franklin confessed , " Costs me nothing to ...
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 |