Develops Althusser's account of the relationship between literature and ideology in an analysis aimed at students. Macherey applies his theory to selected works of four major 20th-century writers.
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'What is at stake in this book is nothing less than a dramatically new way of approaching literature, one which in its unostentatious, low key way scandalously smashes a whole range of liberal humanist icons.' – Terry Eagleton
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a must-have for any literary theorist,
This review is from: A Theory of Literary Production (Routledge Classics) (Paperback)
This book is quite simply a "must have" for anyone working in literary theory, literary analysis, or even historiography. Predating Derrida's Of Grammatology by a year, it nevertheless anticipates many aspects of that more famous work. This book has suffered greatly from Eagleton's misappropriation and subsequent disowning of its theses, which he transformed into a structuralist criticism. Interestingly it is only through what this book (and the essays in his In A Materialist Way collection) says about the materialities of reading that we can really grasp the operation that Eagleton's *interpretation* performed and its effects in subsequent readings of Macherey's work. I would also highly recommend Warren Montag's Louis Althusser and Bodies, Masses, Power books be read alongside this book by Macherey.It also provides a critique of the "author" that anticipates in some ways, and complements in others, that put forward by Michel Foucault in "What is an Author?" If you have Of Grammatology, The Archaeology of Knowledge, and/or Reading Capital you need this book because it not only will enable the theses of those books to be extended and developed but also will correct the idealist and/or structuralist elements of those books. The critique of Barthes in this book is very valuable, as are the analyses of Defoe and Verne.
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What is literary criticism? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
normative fallacy, virgin nature, mysterious island, immanent criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robinson Crusoe, Jules Verne, Les Paysans, The Children of Captain Grant, Cyrus Smith, Henry James, Michel Butor, Roland Barthes, Carpathian Castle, Les Aigues, Les Illusions, Phileas Fogg, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Les Visions, Herr Schultz, Lincoln Island, Sherlock Holmes, Social Democratic Party, The Begum's Fortune New!
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What is literary criticism? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
normative fallacy, virgin nature, mysterious island, immanent criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robinson Crusoe, Jules Verne, Les Paysans, The Children of Captain Grant, Cyrus Smith, Henry James, Michel Butor, Roland Barthes, Carpathian Castle, Les Aigues, Les Illusions, Phileas Fogg, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Les Visions, Herr Schultz, Lincoln Island, Sherlock Holmes, Social Democratic Party, The Begum's Fortune New!
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- Lenin Collected Works V 2 by Vladimir Ilyi Lenin on 7 pages
- On Literature and Art (Other works & anthologies of Lenin) by V. I. Lenin on 7 pages
- Carpathian Castle by Jules Verne on 4 pages
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- Louis Althusser (Transitions) by Warren Montag on 6 pages
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