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