(Wikimedia Commons photo by “I, Gophi”)
Our man in Ireland, Robert Boylan, has called our attention to a pathbreaking work on the Pooh-Cycle:
Winnie the Pooh has exerted enormous influence not only on the West, but in the East. (Some of you, no doubt, devoted substantial time in graduate school to studying The Tao of Pooh and its canonical companion The Te of Piglet.) So it’s with considerable excitement that the scholarly world has greeted this new approach to the understanding of one of the true icons of world civilization. Personally, I’m delighted that it has arrived in time to be incorporated into my forthcoming critical edition of the anonymous Persian Poohnameh and its Arabic equivalent, al-Katib al-Majnun’s Sirat Bu bayna al-hayawanat.
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