Seuss and James Joyce are on the syllabus. In the fall, I taught, for the fifth time, a freshman seminar at Princeton University titled “Wordplay: A Wry Plod from Babel to Scrabble.” It is perhaps the only class in the country in which both Dr.
It also equips them with the best antidote to life’s troubles: a sense of humor.
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I suggest that providing young children with models for how to bend language successfully-and how, yes, to illustrate these linguistic twists as well-increases the likelihood that they will grow up to be good writers and thinkers. As someone who teaches linguistics for a living, I care deeply about the role that language games play in liberal education, both in the classroom and at home. It is true that there is mention of a man Americans (still) celebrate with a federal holiday:Ī friend more attuned to the zeitgeist than I am suggests, however, that at issue are the orientalizing depictions of one Nazzim of Bazzim, who rides a camel-like beast called a Spazzim (spelled with the Seussian letter SPAZZ), and possibly also of Flunnel (spelled with FLUNN), a “softish nice fellow who hides in a tunnel.”įor me, this is not simply about cancel culture, though I shudder to imagine taking my children into secret tunnels to read to them some of the most creative and joyous writing of the twentieth century. When the morning news broke, I took On Beyond Zebra! back off its new shelf and tried to discern the problem. Seuss) would, unlike his predecessors Presidents Obama and Trump, fail to mention one of the country’s best-loved children’s authors.
Seuss Enterprises would announce that six of his books, including On Beyond Zebra!, would no longer be published or licensed because “they portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” Or that President Biden in his proclamation for Read Across America Day (which takes place on March 2 specifically in honor of Dr. I did not imagine then that on the 117th birthday of Theodor Geisel, Dr.
Seuss’s On Beyond Zebra!, first published in 1955, in which Conrad Cornelius o’Donald o’Dell draws lettersĪnd I said, “ You can stop, if you want, with the Z Once he’d left, I put them up one by one-alphabetically, of course-stopping now and again to leaf through some I particularly like. Urn:lcp:onbeyondzebra0000seus:epub:f9c8b240-e632-48b1-920f-3c11170ef993 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier onbeyondzebra0000seus Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3xt7rq3w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780007927746Ġ007927746 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9236 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000382 Pages 66 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210728100052 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 173 Scandate 20210725234522 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007927746 Tts_version 4.Just last week, a wonderful cabinetmaker spent two days at my house installing shelves in a room where I have long intended to display my collection of alphabet books. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:04:21 Boxid IA40194703 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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