Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xvi, 175 p. ; 22 cm. |
Summary |
Crews (English, emeritus, Berkeley) recently created controversy with his book-length invective against Freudianism, The Memory Wars. For this updated version of his wildly popular lampooning of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex, published almost four decades ago, Crews sinks his fangs into more recent movements, such as deconstructionism, new historicism, radical feminism, trauma studies, postcolonialism, and cybercriticism. The book gathers papers from a fictional panel on Pooh at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, all written by Crews and garnished with footnotes that allow the bathos and muddled thinking in some actual scholarship to speak for itself. |
Contents |
Why? Wherefore? Inasmuch as which? / Felicia Marronnez -- A bellyful of Pooh / Victor S. Fassell -- The fissured subtext : historical problematics, the absolute cause, transcoded contradictions, and late-capitalist metanarrative (in Pooh) / Carla Gulag -- Just lack a woman / Sisera Catheter -- The importance of being portly / Orpheus Bruno -- Resident aliens / Das Nuffa Dat -- Gene/meme covariation in Ashdown Forest : Pooh and the consilience of knowledge / Renee Francis -- The courage to squeal / Dolores Malatesta -- Virtual bear / Biggloria3 -- Twilight of the dogs / Dudley Cravat III -- You don't know what Pooh studies are about, do you, and even if you did, do you think anybody would be impressed? / N. Mack Hobbs. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Subject |
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 -- Characters -- Winnie-the-Pooh -- Humor.
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Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Humor.
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Children's stories, English -- History and criticism -- Humor.
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) -- Humor.
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- Humor.
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Teddy bears in literature -- Humor.
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Criticism -- Humor.
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ISBN |
0865476268 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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9780865476264 (hc. : alk. paper) |
Standard No. |
NLGGC 216974984 |
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YDXCP 1772951 |
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NZ1 6258166 |
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AU@ 000022660291 |
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