... Vikram Johri sends this link to Harry Potter and the mystery of an academic obsession.
Vikram cites this passage in particular:
A Berkeley professor called Frederick Crews did a rather gentle lampoon of literary criticism back in the Sixties called Pooh Perplex, a collection of essays purporting to be written by various academics on the subject of Winnie the Pooh. Then a few years ago he wrote a sequel, Postmodern Pooh, which included a paper on 'The Fissured Subtext: Historical Problematics, the Absolute Cause, Transcoded Contradictions, and Late-Capitalist Metanarrative (in Pooh) ' by a Marxist called Carla Gulag who compares Pooh to Chairman Mao.
Vikram's comment? "Oh my!" Indeed.
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