The Object of Literature

by Pierre Macherey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052147678X
• ISBN13: 9780521476782
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"