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Frederick Crews

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American literary critic and writer

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Frederick Crews
Literature
#322
World Rank
#919
Historical Rank
#160
USA Rank
Literary Criticism
#21
World Rank
#33
Historical Rank
#8
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Frederick Campbell Crews is an American essayist and literary critic. Professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James , E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism , and The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes , a discussion of the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He received popular attention for The Pooh Perplex , a book of satirical essays parodying contemporary casebooks. Initially a proponent of psychoanalytic literary criticism, Crews later rejected psychoanalysis, becoming a critic of Sigmund Freud and his scientific and ethical standards. Crews was a prominent participant in the "Freud wars" of the 1980s and 1990s, a debate over the reputation, scholarship, and impact on the 20th century of Freud, who founded psychoanalysis.

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