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Author Kaplan, Charles, 1919-2009.

Title The overwrought urn; a potpourri of parodies of critics who triumphantly present the real meaning of authors from Jane Austen to J. D. Salinger.

Imprint New York, Pegasus [1969]

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Description xii, 216 p. 22 cm.
Contents Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote / J.L. Borges -- The romantic triumph: the warp and the wolf / R.M. Myers -- The transcendentalists / R. Armour -- Thomas Mann and eighteenth-century comic fiction / W. Booth -- How to criticize a poem / T. Spencer -- The greatest English lyric? A new reading of Joe E. Skilmer's Therese / J.F. Nims -- Eliot among the nightingales: fair and foul / C. Kaplan -- Invictus: a regurgitation / I. Wallach -- The ghost of Christmas past: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / H.R. Coursen, Jr. -- The secret of The secret sharer bared / B. Harkness -- Mrs. Bennet and the dark gods: the key to Jane Austen / D. Bush -- Eloise disclosed / F. Lamport -- Patristic exegesis: a medieval Tom Sawyer / J. Halverson -- Six, sex, sick: Seymour, some comments / C.V. Genthe -- Christian symbolism in Lucky Jim / R. Conquest -- A. A. Milne's honey-balloon-pit-gun-tail-bathtubcomplex / F.C. Crews -- Shakespeare explained / R. Benchley -- An imaginary review / J.C. Squire -- Notes and comments / by motley hands -- My memories of D.H. Lawrence / J. Thurber -- Tiptoeing down memory lane / R. Benchley -- The critics: a conversation / E. Wilson -- Chicago letter / W.B. Scott -- Dover Beach revisited / T. Morrison -- Contributors to this issue / R. Benchley.
Subject Criticism -- Humor

 
    
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