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The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook (1963)

av Frederick C. Crews

Andra författare: E. H. Shepard (Illustratör)

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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, The Pooh Perplex 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.… (mer)
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#591 in our old book database. Not rated. 11/25/1990.

Thirty-three years on -- to the day, by chance -- I have finished a second reading of The Pooh Perplex, this time sharing it aloud to my 23-year-old daughter, so we could both appreciate the satirical take-down of academia and the biased and flawed individuals who inhabit it.

And just because it is all meant for mockery doesn't mean there aren't some interesting angles and insights into the Pooh books on offer. I'll never think of the Heffalump trap or honey pots as anything other than the vaginal cavities they truly are ever again.

FOR REFERENCE:

Contents:
• Preface
• Paradoxical Persona: The Hierarchy of Heroism in Winnie-the-Pooh by Harvey C. Window
• A Bourgeois Writer’s Proletarian Fables by Martin Tempralis
• The Theory and Practice of Bardic Verse: Notations of the Hums of Pooh by P.R. Honeycomb
• Poisoned Paradise: The Underside of Pooh by Myron Masterson
• O Felix Culpa! The Sacramental Meaning of Winnie-the-Pooh by C. J. L. Culpepper, D. Litt., Oxon.
• Winnie and the Cultural Stream by Murphy A. Sweat
• A la recherche du Pooh perdu by Woodbine Meadowlark
• A Complete Analysis of Winnie-the-Pooh by Duns C. Penwiper
• Another Book to Cross Off Your List by Simon Lacerous
• The Style of Pooh: Sources, Analogues, and Influences by Benjamin Thumb
• A.A. Milne’s Honey-Balloon-Pit-Gun-Tail-Bathtubcomplex by Karl Anschauung, M.D.
• Prolegomena to Any Future Study of Winnie-the-Pooh by Smedley Force ( )
  villemezbrown | Nov 29, 2023 |
The simple prose of A.A. Milne did create a book beloved of English speaking people, and thus, an academic descends upon the canon looking for reasons to read the books...as an antidote to the academic justification for reading "children's books", we have this set of fictitious essays. The underlying need, for adults to reread the Pooh canon , is that the books, and the Shepherd illustrations are a wonder filled retreat to the state of childhood. As an artifact, an interesting satire upon for those looking for rationalization of their affection....rather like "The Gospel according to Peanuts", but since deliberately a satire, the humour lies closer to the surface. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Jun 12, 2019 |
These are trying times, but it is always still OK to laugh.

If ever you have a moment of doubt about what we do here on goodreads; if you have ever wondered what could possibly be said about your latest read that hasn't been said before, enter 'The Pooh Perplex'. Written by Frederick C. Crews as a send-up of the pomposity of the then-current schools of literary thought and how they can seemingly tear apart anything they turn their pens to. The 'Perplex' is a way out of seeing any piece of literature through only one lens, and deflates the idea of criticism for criticism's sake.

Crews chose the perfect work to feature in his "case-study". The twelve essays come complete with discussion questions and research tips for the young scholar - suggesting even that after he's read through all the case-books and analyses he might check out the original work - if he has time. The 'Pooh' books are rife with material for the bored scholar. Catching these essays individually it would be impossible to detect the joke, so thoroughly does Crews inhabit the characters of his scholars: Harvey C. Window, Woodbine Meadowlark, Simon Lacerus - 12 in all. They snipe at each other, debunk each other's theories and each of their contributions has a bio that scans well.

I've read this several times and I still laugh when reading about Rabbit as the capitalist busybody working to keep everyone organized and downtrodden, Owl as either the obfuscating fog of the masses or the high-brow hero, Eeyore as Christ, Kanga as the fearful feminine energy dragging the Hundred Acre Wood out of its perpetual latency. Its amazing - and I discovered years and years after it came out - there's a sequel!

Pooh Perplex

Next: 'Postmodern Pooh' ( )
  ManWithAnAgenda | Feb 18, 2019 |
The Pooh Perplex is an immensely clever and effective satire against literary criticism, as manifested by the 1960s. Each chapter consists of an essay, purportedly written by literary critic, of childhood favorite Winnie the Pooh. The blurb on the front cover tells the book's purpose (in appropriate Pooh-like language): "In Which It is Discovered that the True Meaning of the Pooh Stories is Not as Simple as is Usually Believed... But for Proper Elucidation Requires Combined Efforts of Several Academicians of Varying Critical Persuasions."

Each chapter consists of an essay, purportedly written by a different literary critic, interpreting Winnie from a different standpoint. The 12 essays are written with different authorial voices, each with amusing footnotes, and for the earnest first-year college student, each with ridiculous "questions and study projects," as well as hilariously pompous biographical notes.

Among the schools of literary criticism included are Freudian, Marxist, and New Critical perspectives. For example, in the essay “Poisoned Paradise: The Underside of Pooh”, “Marvin Masterson” informs us (from a Freudian perspective) that The animals in “Winnie the Pooh” are lacking in genitalia, they seem to have no other activity in life beyond calling on one another and eating snacks, but the experienced critic need not be fooled. The real subject of the book is Christopher Robin’s loss of his mother, which is alternately symbolized, accepted, protested against, denied, and homoerotically compensated for in the various “nursey stories of the plot” (p. 45).

Likewise, in his essay “A Bourgeois Writer’s Proletarian Fables,” “Martin Tempralis” takes a Marxist perspective to inform us that Rabbit is the capitalist manager par excellence, the ‘captain of industry’ who... having deceitfully proffered Pooh admittance to his overstocked larder, artfully traps his victim in the doorway and exploits him as a towel rack for an entire week.... The united efforts of a Marxist- Leninist band of workers succeed in extricating Pooh from his servitude”.

The audience for this work lies chiefly among the targets of the parody, as well as those engaged in literary studies as students, professors, or book reviewers. Others may find some of the essays rather over-the-top, if they understand them. One overarching benefit of the book, from a serious standpoint, is that it shows how easy it is to impose one’s ideology on a neutral work – mining it to find justification for one’s own view. There is a lesson there for anyone who reads literature, or for that matter, current events. And for readers interested in an updated perspective, Crews has followed this work up with the sequel Postmodern Pooh, which revisits Pooh criticism from the standpoint of the excesses of literary criticism in the 1990s. ( )
2 rösta danielx | Jul 2, 2017 |
A spoof on the varied forms of literary criticisms and critics themselves. This book would be a better read for someone who has a literary/literature background. Never having taken classes like those, I only bring to it the experience I have from trying to read a few critics, I don't read them much because they tick me off. So, with that sort of background, I'm afraid much of the humor in this volume was lost on me. Still, there were enough chapters which were hilarious to make it worth the read, and worth the skimming just to understand the different styles. ( )
  MrsLee | May 14, 2011 |
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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, The Pooh Perplex 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.

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