A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, "The Pooh Perplex
Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, "Postmodern Pooh brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that hold sway at the millennium.
Deconstruction, poststructuralist Marxism, new historicism, radical feminism, cultural studies, recovered-memory theory, and postcolonialism, among other methods, take their shots at the poor teddy bear and Crews takes his shots at them. The fun lies in seeing just how much adulteration Pooh can stand.

Frederick Crews is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006), The Pooh Perplex (Chicago, 2003), Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend (Viking, 1998), and Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute (New York Review of Books, 1997).