The Pooh perplex
Subtitle: a freshman casebook
By: by Frederick Crews.
Edition: University of Chicago Press ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 -- Characters -- Winnie-the-Pooh -- Humor.; Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 -- Examinations -- Study guides -- Humor.; Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Humor.; Children's stories, English -- History and criticism -- Humor.; Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) -- Humor.; Teddy bears in literature -- Humor.; Criticism -- Humor.
Genres: Humor.
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. 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.