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. Modelled on the case-books often used in freshman English classes at the time, The Pooh Perplex contains 12 essays written in different critical voices, complete with ridiculous footnotes, tongue-in-cheek questions and study projects and hilarious biographical notes on the contributors. With incisive essays such as A Bourgeois Writer's Proletarian Fables and A la recherche du Pooh perdu, by distinguished authors such as Duns C. Penwiper and P.R. Honeycomb, The Pooh Perplex is sure to delight everyone who has ever had to suffer through a freshman English class - and many of their teachers, too. This edition contains a new preface by the author that compares literary theory then and now and identifies the real-life critics who were spoofed in certain chapters.