Postmodern Pooh

Frederick Crews

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Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, this sequel of sorts to the classic send-up of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex, brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that held sway at the millennium. Deconstruction, poststructuralist Marxism, new historicism, radical feminism, cultural studies, recovered-memory theory, and postcolonialism, among other methods, take their shots at the poor stuffed bear and Frederick Crews takes his well-considered, wildly funny shots at them. His aim, as ever, is true.

Book Details

Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2006
Pages: 192
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.08in - 6.28in - 0.57in - 0.56lb
EAN: 9780810123847
Categories: • Form - Parodies

About the Author

Frederick Crews is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006), The Pooh Perplex (Chicago, 2003), Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend (Viking, 1998), and Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute (New York Review of Books, 1997).

Praise for this book

"So all you lit-crit junkies, rush right out and snag a copy of Postmodern Pooh. Once again, Crews made me laugh until I wept." --Mark Pendergrast, "The Philadelphia Inquirer"Sparkling wit and brilliant parodies ... make this a funny book." --Merle Rubin, "The Los Angeles Times"Really good academic fun." --Barbara Fisher, "The Boston Globe"Postmodern Pooh should be required reading." --Michael Pakenham, "The Baltimore Sun