Reception Ĭrews, in his 2002 interview with NPR, said that the book was well received, even by the community of literary critics it was satirizing. The book includes twelve essays by fictional critics (all Crews writing under pseudonyms), from the points of view of critics such as a Marxist, Freudian, and New Critic. According to a 2002 interview Crews gave to NPR, he chose Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) to be the subject of his book because it was widely read and "very transparent so that it be exploited by all these critics." Crews wrote twelve essays on the book under various pseudonyms that 'analyzed' the book through various lenses such as Marxism. In the 1960s, he sought to write a work that criticized common styles of literary criticism at the time, namely critics allowing their own biases to shape their interpretations of a work, as well as casebooks. When he published The Pooh Perplex, he was teaching English at the University of California, Berkeley. Background, writing, and publication įrederick Crews is an American essayist and literary critic. Crews published a sequel in 2003, Postmodern Pooh. The Pooh Perplex is a 1963 book by Frederick Crews that includes essays on Winnie-the-Pooh as a satire of literary criticism.
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