Nearly 40 years ago a young literary scholar by the name of Frederick Crew had an inspired idea, to portray his trendsetting peers in the act of applying their critical acumen to the adventures of that deceptively simple-minded teddy bear of storybook fame, Winnie the Pooh.

Now Winnie the Pooh is tree quarters of a century old and alas Professor Crew lags not far behind. Thanks, however, to the efforts of Princetons superstar professor N. Mack Hobbs, Crews has been coaxed out of retirement long enough to lend his blessing and his name in a project undertaken in homage to his own, a panel on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association convention in Washington, DC. , at which leading lights of contemporary criticism were invited to train their wits upon the beloved bear. Radical feminist Sisera Catheter, Launian post colonialist Das Nuffa Dat, and trailblazing proponents of Deconstruction, Poststructuralist, Marxism, New Historicism, Biopoetics, Cultural Studies and , let us not forget, recovered memory theory all took their turns at the podium and their  shoot at dear Edward Bear, leaving no ammunition in the arsenal of contemporary literary hermeneutics unexplored. Here then, are the published proceedings of this remarkable event, for the edification, and delectation of a new generation of readers.