The overwrought urn; [electronic resource] a potpourri of parodies of critics who triumphantly present the real meaning of authors from Jane Austen to J.D. Salinger.

Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote, by J.L. Borges.--The romantic triumph: the warp and the wolf, by R.M. Myers.--The transcendentalists, by R. Armour.--Thomas Mann and eighteenth-century comic fiction, by W. Booth.--How to criticize a poem, by T. Spencer.--The greatest English lyric? A new reading of Joe E. Skilmer's Therese, by J.F. Nims.--Eliot among the nightingales: fair and foul, by C. Kaplan.--Invictus: a regurgitation, by I. Wallach.--The ghost of Christmas past: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, by H.R. Coursen, Jr.--The secret of The secret sharer bared, by B. Harkness.--Mrs. Bennet and the dark gods: the key to Jane Austen, by D. Bush.--Eloise disclosed, by F. Lamport.--Patristic exegesis: a medieval Tom Sawyer, by J. Halverson.--Six, sex, sick: Seymour, some comments, by C.V. Genthe.--Christian symbolism in Lucky Jim, by R. Conquest.--A.A. Milne's honey-balloon-pit-gun-tail-bathtubcomplex, by F.C. Crews.--Shakespeare explained, by R. Benchley.--An imaginary review, by J.C. Squire.--Notes and comments, by motley hands.--My memories of D.H. Lawrence, by J. Thurber.--Tiptoeing down memory lane, by R. Benchley.--The critics: a conversation, by E. Wilson.--Chicago letter, by W.B. Scott.--Dover Beach revisited, by T. Morrison.--Contributors to this issue, by R. Benchley.

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