Postmodern Pooh (Rethinking Theory)
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ISBN: 0810123843 / Publisher: Northwestern University Press, August 2006
Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's an...
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Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, this sequel of sorts to the classic send-up of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex, brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that held 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 stuffed bear and Frederick Crews takes his well-considered, wildly funny shots at them. His aim, as ever, is true.
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