Disturbance in the Library Club: A Parody of New Criticism, Feminism, Freudianism, and Deconstructionism

Novus Criticus only desires pastoral quiet to he enjoy his favorite novel, but his neighbors in the Library Club will not let him read in peace. New Criticism, figured as a tetchy old man with a tome, swats away invading Feminist, Freudian, and Deconstructionist literary theories of criticism in this satirical, short story reaction to contemporary English academia.