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In article <3f7ema$865@news.csus.edu>, mikemoor@mercury.sfsu.edu (MICHAEL RICHARD MOORE) writes:
>Here's a book that I would recommend: *Practicing Theory and Reading
>Literature* by Raman Selden. Kentucky University Press, 1989.
>Takes a school of critical thought, like the ones you mention, and
>applies it to a work of literature. Some examples: does a reading of Keats's
>"Ode to a Nightingale" (New Criticism); John Updike (Structuralism);
>Hawthorne (Semiotics); Shakespeare (psychoanalytic); Dickinson
>(deconstruction); Milton (Marxist) etcetera...24
>essays...paperback...uncluttered by jargon. Good luck.

Sounds good, but what we really need is a revised edition
of _The Pooh Perplex_ for the 1990s!

(For those of you unfamiliar with that great work, it purports
to be a college-course "casebook" on _Winnie the Pooh_ with a
Freudian analysis by "Dr. Karl Anschauung," a Christian-Humanist
analysis by "Cyrus Jackson Lee Culpepper," a Marxist analysis,
etc. etc., each followed by totally ridiculous "questions for
further discussion" and "class projects" -- all actually written
by Frederick C. Crews and all hilarious satire.  But he wrote it
in the 1960s before post-structuralism, feminist theory, New
Historicism, etc., came onto the scene, so unfortunately it doesn't
contain parodies any of those critical schools.)
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Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513