The Pooh Perplex

By: Frederick C. Crews

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Paperback | 14 February 2003

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150 Pages

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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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"In twelve glittering, brightly malicious essays [Crews] has pole-axed and then neatly eviscerated twelve varieties of currently fashionable literary criticism. . . . Anyone who values his franchise as a literary highbrow . . . will have to be able to quote The Pooh Perplex."--Orville Prescott "New York Times"

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Non-Fiction Comedy & Humour Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Children's & Teenage Literature Studies Literary Theory

Note to the 2003 Edition Preface Paradoxical Persona: The Hierarchy of Heroism inWinnie-the-Pooh Harvey
A Bourgeois Writer's Proletarian Fables
The Theory and Practice of Bardic Verse: Notations of the Hums of Pooh
Poisoned Paradise: The Underside ofPooh Myron
Culpa!The Sacramental Meaning ofWinnie-the-Pooh
Winnieand the Cultural Stream Murphy
A la recherche du Pooh perdu
A Complete Analysis ofWinnie-the-Pooh Duns
Another Book to Cross Off Your List
The Style ofPooh: Sources, Analogues, and Influences Benjamin
Honey-Balloon-Pit-Gun-Tail-Bathtubcomplex Karl Anschauung, M.D. Prolegomena to Any
Future Study ofWinnie-the-Pooh Smedley Force
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