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ARE THE HUMANITIES INCONSEQUENT?
INTERPRETING MARX'S RIDDLE OF THE DOG |
| By: |
Jerome McGann |
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Paperback |
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£10.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0979405769 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780979405761 |
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| Publisher: |
PRICKLY PARADIGM PRESS, LLC |
| Pub. date: |
30 May, 2009 |
| Pages: |
113 |
| Description: |
Adapting the discontinuous and multitonal critical procedures of works like Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" and Laura Riding's "Anarchism Is Not Enough", this book subjects literary studies to a patacritical investigation. It argues that aesthetics is a science of exceptions, and that any given critical practice is also an exception from itself. |
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Adapting the discontinuous and multitonal critical procedures of works like Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" and Laura Riding's "Anarchism Is Not Enough", in this pamphlet Jerome McGann subjects current literary studies to a patacritical investigation. The investigation centers on the interpretation of a notorious modern riddle: 'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read'. Working by indirection and from multiple points of view, the book argues that aesthetics is always a science of exceptions, and that any given critical practice is also always an exception from itself. The book works from two assumptions: first, that the riddle of the dog conceals an allegory about book culture and is addressed to the academic custodians of book culture; and second, that any explanation of the riddle is necessarily implicated in the problem posed by the riddle. It therefore remains to be seen - it is the reader's part to decide - whether the book is a friend to man or - perhaps like the riddle of the dog - 'too dark to read'. |
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US |
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Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC |
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