I thought this was written quite cleverly, thought the Canadian Intelligencia would appreciate it. Guess they don't hang out here.
j/k
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| Author: | American [ Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Dr. Suess |
Deconstructing Dr. Seuss - An "Owed" Author: Phil Frankenfeld "OWED" TO NAOMI GOLDENBURG'S "A FEMINIST PSYCHOLANALYTIC EXEGESIS OF 'THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK'" A Real Talk She Delivered at the American Psychological Association in New York, Monday, August 14, 1995 The queens and grand poo-bahs In their postmodern palaces Had time on their hands But no grist or analysis! Obliquely their Oobleck At "canons" they'd fired But tenure committees Bayed, "That's not inspired!" When lo, and behold Their tip-top thinkeroo Thought up a thunk thoughtling So lively and new! "Who cares about Shakespeare? Flaubert? What a nuisance! We must deconstruct Something new--with inSeussiance! So she switched on The Great Deconstruct-O-Ma-Thing And decoded a Dr. Seuss text With her ring! From nonsense, deep meaning She soon started teasin' She Grinchly averred That each rhyme had a reason! Existential womb envy! And phallocentrism! Hegemonic cabals! Rainbowed out of her prism! Promethe'an transgressions! Original sin! One wonder just which Catnip patch she'd been in! She thought she saw all But it seems one small catch is Like bad O'Keeffe scholars . . . She only saw snatches! Her decoder ring failed But h'rumph-h'rumphers all noted That HERS was the meaning Old Seuss had encoded! "Such insight!" they howled For her over-wrought thesis That was less exegesis Than laid eggs and wheezes! We've seen cat-hatted tricksters, Chain-jerkers, rib-ticklers, And wool-o'er-the-head-pulling Tenured brain pick'lers! Hornswoggl'ing mythologists, With noggins embossed With Edens and apples And paradigms lost! But no one has given us Such a big goose As the woman who tried To decode Dr. Seuss! Copyright © 1995 by Phil Frankenfeld, The Deacon of Deconstruction |
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| Author: | American [ Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:26 am ] |
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I thought this was written quite cleverly, thought the Canadian Intelligencia would appreciate it. Guess they don't hang out here.
j/k |
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