Are the Humanities Inconsequent?: Interpreting Marx's Riddle of the Dog - Couverture souple

McGann, Jerome J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0979405769 ISBN 13 : 9780979405761

Editeur : Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC, 2009

Synopsis

Adapting the discontinuous and multi-tonal critical procedures of works like Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Laura Riding's Anarchism Is Not Enough, Jerome McGann subjects current literary studies to a patacritical investigation. The investigation centers in 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."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jerome McGann is Emeritus University Professor at the University of Virginia and visiting research professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a director of the online editorial project "Jaime de Angulo's Old Time Stories: Voice, Text, Image."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0979405769
• ISBN 13: 9780979405761
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 113
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible