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

by Jerome J. McGann

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979405769
• ISBN13: 9780979405761
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.7" x 6.9"