The Object of Literature (Literature, Culture, Theory, Series Number 14) - Hardcover

Macherey, Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521419557 ISBN 13: 9780521419550

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This 1995 book by Pierre Macherey was 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. Rejecting the simple notion that literature deploys philosophical topoi in an unmediated manner, Macherey shows the conceptual sophistication - and broad intellectual influence - that literary art has displayed in the modern period. At once a theoretical meditation of great originality and a historical work of scrupulous scholarship, The Object of Literature will entrench Pierre Macherey's already considerable reputation as one of the most significant contemporary theoreticians of literature.

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Review

"...Macherey's formidable critical intelligence runs through its pages all the same." Vincent P. Pecora, Modern Philology

Book Description

This 1995 book is Pierre Macherey's first on literature and theory since A Theory of Literary Production. It offers both a new theory of the relationship between literature and philosophy, and a series of speculations on important texts and problems in the French literary tradition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521419557
• ISBN 13: 9780521419550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254