GER 1791 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Herbert Mead, Behaviorism, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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The past thirty-five years: a growing radical trend overthrow the grimms" rule in fairy-tale world. Postmodern writers and critics gradually came to regard the grimms" fairy tales and those of hands christian andersen, and their imitators as secret agents of an education establishment. Goal: children must learn fixed roles and functions within bourgeois society. Numerous writers began using grimms" fairy tales as models to write innovative, emancipatory tales. Critique: grimms" tales contain sexist and racist attitudes and serve a socialization process that places great emphasis on passivity, industry, and self-sacrifice for girls and on activity, competition, and accumulation of wealth for boys. Contemporary western writers moved in a different, more progressive direction by parodying and revising the fairy tales of the 18th and 19th centuries. Example: angela carter"s re-telling of the classical tale in written and cinematic forms (the company of wolves, 1985)
