The Pooh Perplex
About this book
In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics. Modeled on the "casebooks" often used in freshman English classes at the time, The Pooh Perplex contains twelve essays written in different critical voices, complete with ridiculous footnotes, tongue-in-cheek "questions and study projects," and hilarious biographical notes on the contributors. This edition contains a new preface by the author that compares literary theory then and now and identifies some of the real-life critics who were spoofed in certain chapters.
Reader Profile
· 150 pages · ≈ 2 h 47 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Pooh Perplex?
About ≈ 2 h 47 m — 150 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Pooh Perplex?
150 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Pooh Perplex?
It sits on the Humor, History shelves.
Is The Pooh Perplex in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The Pooh Perplex?
Frederick C. Crews.