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Are the Humanities Inconsequent?
Jerome McGann
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 113 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 178 x 114 x 10. Weight in Grams: 666.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
113
Condition
New
Number of Pages
113
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780979405761
SKU
V9780979405761
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About Jerome McGann
Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia. His most recent books are The Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present and The Scholar's Art: Literature and Scholarship in a Managed World, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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