The overwrought urn
Subtitle: a potpourri of parodies of critics who triumphantly present the real meaning of authors from Jane Austen to J. D. Salinger.
Publisher: Pegasus
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Criticism -- Humor.
Genres: Humor.
Table of contents: value: Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote, by J. L. Borges.; value: The romantic triumph: the warp and the wolf, by R. M. Myers.; value: The transcendentalists, by R. Armour.; value: Thomas Mann and eighteenth-century comic fiction, by W. Booth.; value: How to criticize a poem, by T. Spencer.; value: The greatest English lyric? A new reading of Joe E. Skilmer's Therese, by J. F. Nims.; value: Eliot among the nightingales: fair and foul, by C. Kaplan.; value: Invictus: a regurgitation, by I. Wallach.; value: The ghost of Christmas past: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, by H. R. Coursen, Jr.; value: The secret of The secret sharer bared, by B. Harkness.; value: Mrs. Bennet and the dark gods: the key to Jane Austen, by D. Bush.; value: Eloise disclosed, by F. Lamport.; value: Patristic exegesis: a medieval Tom Sawyer, by J. Halverson.; value: Six, sex, sick: Seymour, some comments, by C. V. Genthe.; value: Christian symbolism in Lucky Jim, by R. Conquest.; value: A. A. Milne's honey-balloon-pit-gun-tail-bathtubcomplex, by F. C. Crews.; value: Shakespeare explained, by R. Benchley.; value: An imaginary review, by J. C. Squire.; value: Notes and comments, by motley hands.; value: My memories of D. H. Lawrence, by J. Thurber.; value: Tiptoeing down memory lane, by R. Benchley.; value: The critics: a conversation, by E. Wilson.; value: Chicago letter, by W. B. Scott.; value: Dover Beach revisited, by T. Morrison.; value: Contributors to this issue, by R. Benchley.