The Pooh Perplex : A Freshman Casebook by Frederick C. Crews

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. This 2003 University of Chicago Press Paperback is in very good condition.

ISBN: 9780226120584 SKU: 1573874 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

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