- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Profile Books; New edition edition (9 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 186197566X
- ISBN-13: 978-1861975669
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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London Review of Books
'If literary theory can generate a book as funny as Postmodern Pooh, you have to love it.'
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'A brilliant and savagely witty skewering of the combatants on all sides of the academic culture wars' The Washington Post 'Fred 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 fields of psychology instead of the impenetrably murky caverns of literary criticism. But literary criticism is luckier than psychology: It has Fred Crews to light the way.' Carol Tavris
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its not just funny its genuinely brilliant and on the mark.
some of the claims in here are priceless, like feminists saying that einstein's equations discriminate against women, that support for hitler is better than classical liberalism etc.
the level is surprisingly high, and you should probably have some knowledge of the university to appreciate this. but never the less, highly recommended. in fact, an intelligent could even use it as a crash course in postmodernism.
some of the claims in here are priceless, like feminists saying that einstein's equations discriminate against women, that support for hitler is better than classical liberalism etc.
the level is surprisingly high, and you should probably have some knowledge of the university to appreciate this. but never the less, highly recommended. in fact, an intelligent could even use it as a crash course in postmodernism.
Format:Hardcover
"The Pooh Perplex" by Frederick Crews was a biting satire of the vocabulary and pretentiousness of much literary criticism of the 1950s, presented as the sort of "dumbing down" casebook popular in post-war academic circles. "Post-Modern Pooh" is a sequel in the form of the proceedings of a high-minded symposium on Pooh studies. The targets have been updated and are such things as the opacity of much post-modern writing, the denial of objective facts, and the ambiguity and all-pervasiveness of sex-based interpretations of literature. These are works of genius. It is difficult to know how anyone can take post-modernism seriously after reading them.
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In the 1960 Frederick Crews wrote The Pooh Perplex, a collection of parodies of literary critics. This is a follow-up to that book. Literature Departments are fighting Theory Wars now (and the quest isn't for The Truth, but a better job). Almost every current literary theory is pilloried here, almost every trendy posturing is exposed. This will appeal to anyone with a sense of humour who has had to be a footsoldier in the Theory Wars.
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