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Authors: Frederick Crews
ISBN-13: 9780810123847, ISBN-10: 0810123843
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Frederick Crews

Frederick Crews is professor emeritus of English at University of California, Berkeley. In addition to The Pooh Perplex, he is the author of The Memory Wars and other books about psychology.

Book Synopsis

A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex

Carol Tavris

Frederick Crews is a Person of Very Great Brain. What he pooh-poohs deserves it.

	Preface
1	Why? Wherefore? Inasmuch as Which?	3
2	A Bellyful of Pooh	19
3	The Fissured Subtext: Historical Problematics, the Absolute Cause, Transcoded Contradictions, and Late-Capitalist Metanarrative (in Pooh)	33
4	Just Lack a Woman	47
5	The Importance of Being Portly	65
6	Resident Aliens	81
7	Gene/Meme Covariation in Ashdown Forest: Pooh and the Consilience of Knowledge	97
8	The Courage to Squeal	117
9	Virtual Bear	133
10	Twilight of the Dogs	147
11	You Don't Know What Pooh Studies Are About, Do You, and Even If You Did, Do You Think Anybody Would Be Impressed?	163

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