Show Notes
We did it! One album down, lots to go. Uncle Jerry takes us through alllllll the unifying themes, devices, questions, and more (13 to be exact) of the folklore album as a whole. Thanks for coming on this journey with us!
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Works Cited: Sonnets from the Portuguese 20: Beloved, my Beloved, when I think – Elizabeth Barrett Browning *Aurora Leigh: A Norton Critical Edition – Elizabeth Barrett Browning *Morphology of the Folktale – V. Propp *The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales – Bruno Bettelheim *Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion – Jack Zipes *Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale – Jack Zipes *The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales – Jack Zipes *The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: A Norton Critical Edition – Jack Zipes *Literary Theory: An Introduction – Terry Eagleton *Witches, Ogres, and the Devil's Daughter: Encounters with Evil in Fairy Tales – Mario Jacoby, Verena Kast, Ingrid Riedel *Retelling / Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times – Karl Kroeber *Linguistic Criticism – Roger Fowler *From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers – Marina Warner *No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock – Marina Warner [anyone lived in a pretty how town] – e.e. cummings Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird – Wallace Stevens Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Lore & Lyrics Ulysses – James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce *Slaughter-House Five – Kurt Vonnegut *The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Hilary Duff is trying to listen to the healthy part of her brain – Los Angeles Times The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix
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