Postmodern Pooh (Rethinking Theory) - Softcover

Crews, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810123843 ISBN 13: 9780810123847

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Hilarious and accurate. Crews has made the punishment fit the crime." --Joan Acocella

"Frederick Crews is a Person of Very Great Brain. What he pooh-Poohs deserves it. Reading this book actually makes me grateful that I toil in the jargon-choked field of psychology instead of the impenetrably murky caverns of literary criticism. But literary criticism is luckier than psychology: it has Frederick Crews to light the way." --Carol Tavris, author of The Mismeasure of Woman

"Postmodern Pooh is an astonishing book: hilarious, deliciously cruel, and intellectually stimulating." --Denis Dutton, Editor, Arts & Letters Daily

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810123843
• ISBN 13: 9780810123847
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192