Postmodern Pooh

by Crews, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9780810123847
• ISBN10: 0810123843
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, "The Pooh Perplex Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, "Postmodern Pooh brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that hold 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 teddy bear and Crews takes his shots at them. The fun lies in seeing just how much adulteration Pooh can stand.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Frederick Crews
Why? Wherefore? Inasmuch as Which?	3	(16)
Felicia Marronnez
A Bellyful of Pooh	19	(14)
Victor S. Fassell
The Fissured Subtext: Historical Problematics, the Absolute Cause, Transcoded Contradictions, and Late-Capitalist Metanarrative (in Pooh)	33	(14)
Carla Gulag
Just Lack a Woman	47	(18)
Sisera Catheter
The Importance of Being Portly	65	(16)
Orpheus Bruno
Resident Aliens	81	(16)
Das Nuffa Dat
Gene/Meme Covariation in Ashdown Forest: Pooh and the Consilience of Knowledge	97	(20)
Renee Francis
The Courage to Squeal	117	(16)
Dolores Malatesta
Virtual Bear	133	(14)
Biggloria 3
Twilight of the Dogs	147	(16)
Dudley Cravat III
You Don't Know What Pooh Studies Are About, Do You, and Even If You Did, Do You Think Anybody Would Be Impressed?	163
N. Mack Hobbs