| Description |
xiv, 240 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Literature, culture, theory ; 14 |
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Literature, culture, theory ; 14
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| Contents |
Foreword / Michael Sprinker. 1. What is literature thinking about? -- Pt. I. Roads to History. 2. A cosmopolitan imaginary: the literary thought of Mme de Stael. 3. George Sand's Spiridion: a pantheist novel. 4. The Hegelian musings of Raymond Queneau -- Pt. II. Into the Depths. 5. On Victor Hugo: figures of the man from below. 6. Georges Bataille: materialism inverted. 7. A rhetoric of abysses: Celine's magic metro -- Pt. 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 |
| Summary |
This 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 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 |
| Analysis |
French literature History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
French literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
94015012 |
| ISBN |
0521419557 |
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052147678X (paperback) |
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