Something's Fishy Here

Authors

Kate Comer, The Ohio State UniversityFollow

Abstract

I wrote this piece as a sort of Harlot test run. When we began talking about the need for public-oriented rhetorical criticism, Jim Fredal challenged me to figure out what that might look like. I'd recently written a rather academic analysis of Hans Christian Andersen's original "Little Mermaid" and was hoping to make it relevant/current; Disney's version had just been re-released in a "Platinum Edition" DVD and was being adapted into a Broadway show. So it made sense to put it all together, using my sister as my ideal audience: smart, fun, feministá and concerned about her new baby's exposure to the dangers of Disney rhetoric. This has been the most enjoyable writing experience I've ever had.

About the Author(s)

Kate Comer is a PhD student in rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies at The Ohio State University and a founding editor of Harlot.

DOI

10.15760/harlot.2008.1.5

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39363

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Comer, Kate (2008) "Something's Fishy Here," Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion: No. 1, 5.
https://doi.org/10.15760/harlot.2008.1.5