{"product_id":"the-pooh-perplex-9780226120584","title":"The Pooh Perplex","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Pooh Perplex\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick Crews\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California at Berkeley. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Random House Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e (currently in its sixth edition), and \u003ci\u003ePostmodern Pooh\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556014035218,"sku":"9780226120584","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dae83abf-5567-4fa3-bc93-9656df948ad4.jpg?v=1731746847","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pooh-perplex-9780226120584","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}