Warren Montag, "Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production"
English | ISBN: 081014512X | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 081014512X | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This collection revisits A Theory of Literary Production (1966) to show how Pierre Macherey’s remarkable—and still provocative—early work can contribute to contemporary discussions about the act of reading and the politics of formal analysis. Across a series of historically and philosophically contextualized readings, the volume’s contributors interrogate Macherey’s work on a range of pressing issues, including the development of a theory of reading and criticism, the relationship between the spoken and the unspoken, the labor of poetic determination and of literature’s resistance to ideological context, the literary relevance of a Spinozist materialism, the process of racial subjectification and the ontology of Blackness, and a theorization of the textual surface.
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