{"product_id":"crackpot-texts-macdonald-daly-9780952202851","title":"Crackpot Texts: Absurd Explorations in Modern and Postmodern Literature","description":"This work is not literature or criticism, but a Hebridean satellite of both, likely to transform the conventional understanding of neither. The author himself declares his intention to \"produce a discourse which the reader finds it hard to classify. Is it fiction? Is it literary criticism? If neither, what is it?\" In an envoi which heaps confusion upon confusion while ostensibly revealing his multiple sources, he claims kinship with Bernard Sharratt, Umberto Eco and Stanislaw Lem, but refuses to conceal his inferiority to all three: \u003ci\u003eCrackpot Texts\u003c\/i\u003e is very like Sharratt's \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e, a mixture of humour and politics, with the politics removed; it is also like that combination of humour and literary theory, Eco's \u003ci\u003eMisreadings\u003c\/i\u003e, without the literary theory; and it is consciously indebted to Lem's compound of humour and idiocy, \u003ci\u003eImaginary Magnitude\u003c\/i\u003e, in all but its failure to amuse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e MacDonald Daly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0952202859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780952202851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zoilus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"MacDonald Daly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48998655361279,"sku":"9780952202851","price":12.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crackpot-texts-macdonald-daly-9780952202851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}