Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men (eBook)

Political Fairy Tales of Edouard Laboulaye

Edouard Laboulaye (Autor)

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2018
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18448-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current timesEdouard Laboulaye (1811-1883), one of nineteenth-century France's most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales. Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men brings together sixteen of Laboulaye's most artful stories in new translations. Filled with biting social commentary and strong notions of social justice, these rediscovered tales continue to impart lessons today.Inspired by folktales from such places as Estonia, Germany, Iceland, and Italy, Laboulaye's deceptively entertaining stories explore the relationships between society and the ruling class. In "e;Briam the Fool,"e; the hero refuses the queen's hand after he kills the king. In "e;Zerbino the Bumpkin,"e; the king and prime minister are idiots, while the king's daughter runs away with a woodcutter to an enchanted island. And in the title story, "e;Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men,"e; a superficial prince is schooled by a middle-class woman who smacks him when he won't engage in his lessons and follows him across Europe until he falls in love with her. In these worlds, shallow aristocrats come to value liberty, women are as assertive and intelligent as men, and protagonists experience compassion as they learn of human suffering.With an introduction by leading fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes that places Laboulaye's writing in historical context, Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men presents spirited tales from the past that speak to contemporary life.

Autor

Jack Zipes is the editor of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (both Princeton), as well as The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton). He is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
• Reihe/Serie: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
• Übersetzer: Jack Zipes
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abdallah, or The Four-Leaf Clover • Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences) • Adviser • Anisette • aristocracy • authoritarianism • Bildungsroman • Blue Tales • Bread • Brothers Grimm • Caesarism • Cambridge University Press • cattle • Censorship • Contes allemands de temps passe • Contes bleus • Contes bohemes • Contes noirs et blancs • Courtier • cowardice • Decadent Movement • Desertion • Distaff • E. Alsleben • Eloquence • Essay • Etiquette • Fairy tale • Felix Frank • flagon • flattery • folk and fairy tales • four-leaf clover • Franco-Prussian War • french people • French Revolution of 1848 • Friedrich Carl de Savigny • garret • gentleness • Giambattista Basile • Good government • Gratitude • Hermann Broch • His Family • Histoire des Etats-Unis d’Amerique • Histoire du droit de propriete fonciere en Occident • Ideology • Idiot • Interpreting American Democracy in France • Jack Zipes • John Bigelow • just society • Kurt Schwitters • La bonne femme • Laura Gonzenbach • Leather • Le prince-caniche • Literature • magic realism • Manuscript • Mary L. Booth • Mary Louise Booth • meal • milking • Misalliance • Mountain Stream • Mount Etna • My Child • My little Monster • Napoleon III • narrative • Nickname • Normans • Novel • novella • of education • Old Wives’ Fables • oven • Paris in America • pasture • Pedant • Pelasgians • Perlino • Peruonto • Petticoat • pewter • Philosopher • Pickaxe • Pif Paf, ou l’art de gouverner les hommes • pity • Poetry • Politician • Politique • Prince Charming • Prince consort • proverb • Ragpicker • Recherches sur la condition civile et politique des femmes depuis les Romains jusqu’a nos jours • ridicule • Silenus • Skirt • Son of a Witch • Sovereignty • Straparola • stupidity • Such Is Life (novel) • Tailor • Tales by Black and White Storytellers • tench • terence • The Civilizing Process • The Golden Ass • The loved one • The Mad Man • The Peasants • The Poodle Prince • three witches • tire • tomb • Twelve Articles • udder • Uncanny Stories (magazine) • Union League Club • valet • Victory Arch • Walter Gray • Writer
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18448-8 / 0691184488
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18448-7 / 9780691184487