Postmodern PoohPurporting 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. |
Contents
1 Why? Wherefore? Inasmuch as Which? | 3 |
2 A Bellyful of Pooh | 19 |
Historical Problematics the AbsoluteCause Transcoded Contradictions and LateCapitalist | 33 |
4 Just Lack a Woman | 47 |
5 The Importance of Being Portly | 65 |
6 Resident Aliens | 81 |
Pooh and theConsilience of Knowledge | 97 |
8 The Courage to Squeal | 117 |
9 Virtual Bear | 133 |
10 Twilight of the Dogs | 147 |
11 You Dont Know What Pooh Studies Are About Do Youand Even If You Did Do You Think Anybody Would BeImpressed? | 163 |
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