The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook,9780226120584

The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook

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ISBN13: 9780226120584
ISBN10: 0226120589
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

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. Modeled on the "casebooks" often used in freshman English classes at the time, The Pooh Perplex contains twelve essays written in different critical voices, complete with ridiculous footnotes, tongue-in-cheek "questions and study projects," and hilarious biographical notes on the contributors. This edition contains a new preface by the author that compares literary theory then and now and identifies some of the real-life critics who were spoofed in certain chapters.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Note to the 2003 Edition ix
Preface xiii
Paradoxical Persona: The Hierarchy of Heroism in Winnie-the-Pooh
3(12)
Harvey C. Window
A Bourgeois Writer's Proletarian Fables
15(14)
Martin Tempralis
The Theory and Practice of Bardic Verse: Notations on the Hums of Pooh
29(12)
P.R. Honeycomb
Poisoned Paradise: The Underside of Pooh
41(12)
Myron Masterson
O Felix Culpa! The Sacramental Meaning of Winnie-the-Pooh
53(12)
C.J.L. Culpepper
D. Litt
Winnie and the Cultural Stream
65(10)
Murphy A. Sweat
A la recherche du Pooh perdu
75(12)
Woodbine Meadowlark
A Complete Analysis of Winnie-the-Pooh
87(14)
Duns C. Penwiper
Another Book to Cross Off Your List
101(14)
Simon Lacerous
The Style of Pooh: Sources, Analogues, and Influences
115(10)
Benjamin Thumb
A. A. Milne's Honey-Ballon-Pit-Gun-Tail-Bathtubcomplex
125(14)
Karl Anschauung
Prolegomena to Any Future Study of Winnie-the-Pooh
139
Smedley Force

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