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The Pooh Perplex : A Freshman Casebook

Frederick C Crews

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UPC:
9780226120584
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2003-02-21
Release Date:
2003-02-14
Author:
Frederick C. Crews
Language:
english
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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. 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.