A theory of literary production

• Main Author: Macherey, Pierre
• Other Authors: Wall, Geoffrey, Eagleton, Terry, 1943-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2006
• Subjects: Λογοτεχνία > Ιστορία και κριτική; Λογοτεχνία > Φιλοσοφία

 Preface vii Translator's Preface xii Acknowledgment xv Some Elementary Concepts 1 Criticism and Judgment 3 1 Domain and Object 5 2 Questions and Answers 9 3 Rule and Law 13 4 Positive and Negative Judgment 16 5 Front and Back 22 6 The Genesis of a Poem 24 Thaumantis Regia 30 Improvisation, Structure and Necessity 44 7 Autonomy and Independence 58 8 Image and Concept: Beautiful Language and 9 True Language 62 Illusion and Fiction 70 10 Creation and Production 75 11 Pact and Contract 78 12 Explanation and Interpretation 84 13 Implicit and Explicit 91 14 The Spoken and the Unspoken 95 15 The Two Questions 101 16 Interior and Exterior 108 17 Depth and Complexity 110 18 Some Critics 115 Lenin, Critic of Tolstoy 117 19 The Image in the Mirror 133 Literary Analysis: The Tomb of Structures 152 20 Some Works 175 Jules Verne: The Faulty Narrative 177 21 I The problem posed by the work 177 II Analysis of the work 183 III The function of the novel 256 Appendix: The Thematic Ancestor: Robinson Crusoe 268 Borges and the Fictive Narrative 278 22 Balzac?s Les Paysans: A Disparate Text 288 23 Appendix: Lenin?s Articles on Tolstoy 334 Leo Tolstoy as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution 334 L. N. Tolstoy 340 Leo Tolstoy and His Epoch 345 L. N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement 350 Tolstoy and the Proletarian Struggle 353 Heroes of ?Reservation? 354 Forty Years On 362 Index 367