Regendering the school story vs The Pooh Perplex: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Children's literature, Books and Reading, Children, Literary Criticism, History and criticism
Regendering the school story
In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out gender relationships, especially when females are…
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The Pooh Perplex
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.…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Pooh Perplex is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Regendering the school story.
Scores by source
| Regendering the school story | The Pooh Perplex | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (3) | — |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (3) |
Reception
| Regendering the school story | The Pooh Perplex | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Editions | 11 | 11 |
| Citations | 3 | — |
| Want to read | 18 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 207 |
| Pages | 297 | 150 |