The Object of Literature

A new theory of the relationship between literature and philosophy in the context of the French tradition.

List 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: P. Macherey, Pierre Macherey, Pierre (Universite de Lille III Macherey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2011
• EAN: 9780521476782
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47678-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 366 g
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory; Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies