The Pooh Perplex by Frederick C. Crews [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1963

The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook by Frederick C. Crews

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1963] E.P. DUTTON & CO. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket has a few tiny sealed edge tears and some faint staining to rear.  Otherwise, in great shape.  Housed in a new hq brodart jacket protector.  Price clipped on front panel. 

Book itself is pristine; reads like new. 

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.