
The Pooh Perplex
Frederick C. Crews(Author)
University of Chicago Press
Published on 14. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-0-226-12058-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics. Modelled on the "case-books" often used in freshman English classes at the time, "The Pooh Perplex" contains 12 essays written in different critical voices, complete with ridiculous footnotes, tongue-in-cheek "questions and study projects" and hilarious biographical notes on the contributors. With incisive essays such as "A Bourgeois Writer's Proletarian Fables" and "A la recherche du Pooh perdu", by distinguished authors such as Duns C. Penwiper and P.R. Honeycomb, "The Pooh Perplex" is sure to delight everyone who has ever had to suffer through a freshman English class - and many of their teachers, too. This edition contains a new preface by the author that compares literary theory then and now and identifies the real-life critics who were spoofed in certain chapters.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
9 line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 207 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
177 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-12058-4 (9780226120584)
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Person
Frederick Crews is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California at Berkeley. His many books include The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy, The Random House Handbook (currently in its sixth edition), and Postmodern Pooh.