The Object of Literature
Part of Literature, Culture, Theory
- Author: Pierre Macherey, Université de Lille III, Charles de Gaulle
- Date Published: March 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521476782
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At once a theoretical meditation of great originality and a historical work of scrupulous scholarship, this new book by Pierre Macherey is his first dealing with literature and theory since his seminal A Theory of Literary Production. Continuing the project of Althusserian theory, Macherey engages in a series of close exegeses of classical texts in French literature and philosophy, from the late eighteenth century down to the 1970s, that explore the historically variable but thematically similar ways in which literary texts represent philosophical ideas. Throughout the book, Macherey shows the conceptual sophistication--and broad intellectual influence--that literary art has displayed in the modern period.
Read more- Long-awaited book by the author of a key text in contemporary literary theory
- Combines materialist theories with those of French thinkers including Foucault
- Broad appeal to those interested in European literature, literary theory, philosophy
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"...Macherey's formidable critical intelligence runs through its pages all the same." Vincent P. Pecora, Modern Philology
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- Date Published: March 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521476782
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.33kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword
1. What is literature thinking about?
Part I. Roads to History:
2. A cosmopolitan imaginary: the literary thought of Mme. de Staël
3. George Sand's Spiridion: a pantheist novel
4. The Hegelian musings of Raymond Queneau
Part II. Into the Depths:
5. On Victor Hugo: figures of the man from below
6. Georges Bataille: materialism inverted
7. A rhetoric of the abyss: Céline's magic metro
Part III. All Must Pass Away:
8. Sade and the order of disorder
9. Flaubert's non-realism
10. Foucault reads Roussel: literature as philosophy
11. Towards a literary philosophy.
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