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Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

8 reviews
Frederick Crews

Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006

Brilliant demolition of various idealist nonsenses
Frederick Crews is a retired teacher from the University of California, Berkeley. In this brilliant collection of essays, he passes judgment on `Intelligent Design' creationism, UFO reports, satanic mind control, alien abductions, previous incarnations and telepathy. He demolishes the frauds Freud and Jung, and he exposes the cults of psychoanalysis, theosophy, Zen Buddhism, channelling, ...

The Borzoi handbook for writers

1 review
Frederick C Crews

McGraw-Hill, 1993

A Must For High School And College Students
The Borzoi handbook is the most concise and easy to use reference book of its kind. A must have for all high school and college students. The addition of the workbook makes it an excellent resource for individual and class study. I have used the Borzoi for almost 15 years, and this latest edition is the best yet.

The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute

10 reviews
Harold P. Blum, Morris Eagle, ...

New York Review of Books, 1995

Freudians Release Their Pent Up Hostility
Frederick Crews really knows how to tap that deep reservoir of hostility found in modern Freudian psychoanalysts. In 1993 and 1994 FC wrote two essays in the New York Review of Books debunking Freud in the first, and tearing to shreds the recovered memory movement in the second. These two essays and the letters in response to them have been put into the book The Memory Wars. As someone trained ...

The Pooh Perplex : A Freshman Casebook

6 reviews
Frederick C. Crews

University of Chicago Press, 2003

How dare this book ever be out of print?
This is a brilliant send-up of the pretentious critiques that has masqueraded as literary criticism since pseudo-intellectualism was first invented by which mental-nonentities could parade as our moral superiors. Just read it. Absolutely convincing, and a breath of fresh air. You will love it - unless you are one of the poseurs, of course. But it will still be devastatingly funny.

Skeptical Engagements
Frederick Crews

Oxford University Press, USA, 1988

Eleven years ago, in Out of My System, the influential literary critic, Frederick Crews, disclosed the erosion of his Freudian sympathies. Now, in a carefully reasoned and witty new book, he reveals where that reappraisal has taken him and why he has come to regard himself as an opponent of all "self-validating" doctrines. The essays and pieces in this volume concern what Crews calls "the fear of facing the world, including its works of ...

The Random House Handbook

2 reviews
Frederick Crews

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1991

My teaching "bible"
I teach English to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in a private school. This book is always close at hand to verify answers and to clarify nagging questions (do you capitalize northern when used with California? ) My edition is getting tattered through constant use. The book is well-organized and easy to understand. It covers everything from the correct use of commas to how to cite the ...

The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative (Rethinking Theory)

2 reviews

Northwestern University Press, 2005

Insightful and Enjoyable
As an evolutionary biologist with a strong interest in literary theory, finding this book was extremely exciting for me, and it definitely lived up to my expectations. The book consists of a collection of thought provoking, well written essays that emphasize the need to incorporate evolutionary theory into the analysis of literature (and a few other art forms) and provide strong examples of the ...

Postmodern Pooh (Rethinking Theory)

12 reviews
Frederick Crews

Northwestern University Press, 2006

True, all too true
Correct me if I'm wrong. Chapter 1: FELICIA MARRONNEZ = Derrida; Chapter 2: VICTOR S. FASSELL = Foucault; Chapter 3: CARLA GULAG: Fredric Jameson; Chapter 4: SISERA CATHETER = radical feminism (Brownmiller?); Chapter 5: ORPHEUS BRUNO = the one and only Harold Bloom; Chapter 6: DAT NUFFA DAT = Edward Said; Chapter 7: RENEE FRANCIS = envionmental criticism; DOLORES MALATESTA = pop psychology; ...

Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend

9 reviews

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999

A pseudoscience
This collection of essays edited by F. Crews is devastating for S. Freud and psychoanalysis. The essays show Freud as a fabricator of his patients's confessions, a liar, a cheat, a ruthless censor, a myth creator (about himself), a paranoiac, an icy remorseless opportunist, a jealous and imperious character full of a priori's, a megalomaniac, an impostor, a tyrant and a misogynist ('the ...

The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes
Frederick Crews

University of California Press, 1989

Surveying Hawthorne's entire career, from his earliest surviving stories through the romances left unfinished at his death, Frederick Crews defines the terms of Hawthorne's self-debate as revealed in his fiction. Hawthorne emerges from this study as a writer of acute psychological awareness. In an Afterword written for this edition, Crews interrogates his own argument with characteristic unsparingness. He candidly reassesses the theoretical ...

Anthology of American Literature Vol. II: Realism to the Present

4 reviews

Prentice Hall College Div, 1996

Anthology of American Literature: Volume II
This huge textbook is a steal: hundreds of major works from the last century and a half, printed on quality paper, bound with a strong but flexible gum binding. If this were a hardcover, you'd pay twice the price for what it includes. It's thorough and scholarly, a tome that defines the Big League of anthologies. It's not for the shallow reader, though, who's accustomed to the sensuous ...

The Critics Bear it Away: American Fiction and the Academy
Frederick Crews

Random House, 1992

A distinguished literary critic analyzes his colleagues' obscure and ideological treatment of American fiction and makes a powerful case for facing works of literature squarely and empirically.

Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method

1 review
Frederick C. Crews

Oxford University Press, USA, 1975

Literature and psychoanalysis
These are the first essays of Freud's and psychoanalysis' nemesis, Frederick Crews (see 'Memory Wars, Freud's Legacy in Dispute'), and they are more or less out-of-date. They discuss seriously such forgotten and totally unimportant scribblers as Norman O. Brown or Lewis Feuer. And who's still interested in Herbert Marcuse's philosophy, which is also based on Freud's theories? The discussions of ...

The Borzoi Handbook for Writers
Frederick Crews, Sandra Schor

Knopf, 1985

this little book helps anyone who want to write essays, editorials, drafts, etc.. Very informative book for anyone who has questions about the how-2's of writing!

Concise Anthology of American Literature

2 reviews

Prentice Hall, 1997

A pretty good anthology
Let's face it, most people won't be buying this volume by choice--they'll buy it for a class. Still, it's good to know what you're getting into. This is a pretty good anthology of American literature, starting all the way back with Native American myths and Columbus's journals and continuing through Puritan, Enlightenment, Transcendentalist, Romantic, and modern periods of literature in ...

Anthology of American Literature Vol. I: Colonial Through Romantic

3 reviews

Prentice Hall College Div, 1997

Inclusive of Minority Voices
American Literature: Vol. 1 / 0-13-083814-4 This American Literature anthology encompases the Colonial to Romantic periods of American literature. Although the anthology starts out on a European note with Columbus' "Letter Describing His First Voyage" and fails to start the volume of American culture and writings prior to European discovery of the Americas, the volume does at least provide ...

The Pooh Perplex
Frederick C. Crews

E. P. Dutton, 1965

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