A satire on literary criticism.
"Almost 40 years ago, Crews mocked post-war academic fashions in 'The Pooh Perplex', a set of scholarly essays on AA Milne's great bear. Now bear and dons are back for a fresh dose of pin-sharp . A guilty treat for all survivors of post 1970s arts degrees." - Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
"Fred Crews is a Person of Very Great Brain. What he pooh-Poohs, deserves it. Reading this book actually makes me grateful that I toil in the jargon-choked fields of psychology instead of the impenetrably murky caverns of literary criticism. But literary criticism is luckier than psychology: It has Fred Crews to light the way." - Carol Tarvis
