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Postmodern Pooh
by Frederick Crews
ISBN: 0865476268
ISBN-13: 9780865476264
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
A witty send-up of postmodern literary theory, this collection of essays by invented academics mocks gay studies, gyn crit, new historicism, and other trendy isms while satirically illuminating aspects of Winnie the Pooh.
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"English majors arise: Your field has been satirized, and well."
-- Kirkus
"This small volume should be required reading for 30, 000 members of the MLA and any other bemused spectators of the academic fishbowl."
-- Publishers Weekly
"[A] brilliant and savagely witty skewering of the combatants on all sides of the academic culture wars." -- James Hynes
-- Washington Post Book World
"For those blissfully unaware that such things have been going on in literary criticism, POSTMODERN POOH serves as a pretty accurate tour d'horizon of the current academic scene. Others more versed in the ways of this field will perhaps enjoy a measure of Schadenfreude as they feel the shock of recognition on reading Crews' biting portraits." -- Martin Rubin
-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 2001
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Pages: 175
Publisher's Notes
Nearly forty years ago, a young literary scholar by the name of Frederick Crews had an inspired idea: to portray his trendsetting peers in the act of applying their critical acumen to the adventures of that deceptively simpleminded teddy bear of storybook fame, Winnie-the-Pooh. In incisive chapters entitled "A Bourgeois Writer's Proletarian Fables," "A la recherche du Pooh perdu," and so forth, Freudian and Marxist, New Critic and Neo-Aristotelian alike had at the Pooh texts, dredging up their hidden layers of meaning for the enlightenment of the hitherto unsuspecting reader. The Pooh Perplex became a bestseller, a 'must' read discussed at sherry-and-cheese gatherings from coast to coast.
Now Winnie-the-Pooh is three-quarters of a century old-and, alas, Professor Crews lags not far behind. Thanks, however, to the efforts of Princeton's superstar professor N. Mack Hobbs, Crews has been coaxed out of retirement long enough to lend his blessing and his name to a project undertaken in homage to his own -- a panel on Pooh convened at the December 2000 Modern Language Association convention in Washington, D.C., at which the leading lights of contemporary criticism were invited to train their wits upon the beloved bear. Radical feminist Sisera Catheter, Locanion postcolonialist Dos Nuffa Dat, and trailblazing proponents of Deconstruction, Poststructuralist Marxism, New Historicism, Biopoetics, Cultural Studies, and -- let us not forget -- recovered memory theory all took their turns at the podium and their shots at dear Edward Bear, leaving no ammunition in the arsenal of contemporary literary hermeneutics unexploded. Here, then, are the published proceedings of this remarkable event, for the edification (and delectation) of a new generation of readers.
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