{"product_id":"2026100010413-secondhand-the-pooh-perplex","title":"The Pooh Perplex","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the full arsenal of literary criticism is unleashed upon a bear of very little brain? Frederick C. Crews's The Pooh Perplex answers that question with devastating wit, presenting a collection of mock academic essays in which scholars of wildly divergent critical schools — Marxist, Freudian, Christian allegorist, and more — each argue with thunderous conviction that A.A. Milne's beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories contain profound, hidden truths visible only to their particular brand of intellectual genius.\n\nA razor-sharp parody of mid-twentieth-century academic literary criticism, this work skewers the pretensions of the university establishment by holding a magnifying glass up to the Hundred Acre Wood. Crews, a Professor of English at UC Berkeley, constructs each fictional critic with such surgical precision that the satire transcends mere comedy, offering a genuinely instructive — and hilarious — guide to the methodologies and blind spots of the critical theories it lampoons. First published in 1963, it remains one of the most celebrated works of literary parody ever written, leaving the reader to wonder: is it Pooh who is simple, or us?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50736117743835,"sku":"2026100010413-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5fef70f0-df40-4195-a4cf-12d65b3786f4.png?v=1792122447","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010413-secondhand-the-pooh-perplex","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}