Postmodern Pooh

Frederick Crews

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A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex

Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, Postmodern Pooh brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that hold 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 teddy bear and Crews takes his shots at them. The fun lies in seeing just how much adulteration Pooh can stand.

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Postmodern Pooh
CHAPTER ONEWhy? Wherefore? Inasmuch as Which?FELICIA MARRONNEZ 
 
Felicia Marronnez is Sea & Ski Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine. All of her degrees, however, were awarded by Yale University, and it was from Yale's English department that she relocated to Irvine in 1990, with the specific aim of helping to narrow the sophistication gap between our two coasts. In view of her prizewinning dissertation, "Heidegger Reading Pooh Reading Hegel Reading Husserl: Or, Isn't It Punny How a Hun Likes Beary?,"

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"So all you lit-crit junkies, rush right out and snag a copy of Postmodern Pooh. Once again, Crews made me laugh until I wept." --Mark Pendergrast, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Sparkling wit and brilliant parodies ... make this a funny book." --Merle Rubin, The Los Angeles Times

"Really good academic fun." --Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe

"Postmodern Pooh should be required reading." --Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun
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Frederick Crews

Frederick Crews is professor emeritus of English at University of California, Berkeley. In addition to The Pooh Perplex, he is the author of The Memory Wars and other books about psychology.

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Postmodern Pooh
Frederick Crews

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
North Point Press
January 2003
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ISBN: 9780865476547
ISBN10: 0865476543
5 1/16 x 7 15/16 inches, 192 pages, Notes
$15.00

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
North Point Press
April 2011
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ISBN: 9781429930758
ISBN10: 1429930756
160 pages
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