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- From: Nick.Carbone@WRITING.UMASS.EDU
- Subject: Reply to Re: Dr. Seuss
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- Mike,
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- I don't recall any articles specifically, but one place to start might be
- with Bruno Bettelheim's _The Uses of Enchantment_. He argues that Disney
- type treatments over simplify the messages of fairy tales and rob them
- of their psychological advantages, depriving the child of richer imaginings
- and models for making sense of the world. I don't know that having Cinderella'
- s step sisters getting their eyes pecked out by birds after cutting off their
- own toes to fit into the slipper would make Disney any less sexist, but B.B.
- tends to argue that the older original versions of the tales, being closer to
- some sort of mythic/psychological truths are less encumbered with the ethos
- and values (such as they are in Disney) of today.
- nick.carbone@writing.umass.edu
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