Translation of Pour une théorie de la production littéraire.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Criticism and judgment -- 2. Domain and object -- 3. Questions and answers -- 4. Rule and law -- 5. Positive and negative judgment -- 6. Front and back -- The genesis of a poem -- Thaumantis regia -- 7. Improvisation, structure and necessity -- 8. Autonomy and independence -- 9. Image and concept : beautiful language and true language -- 10. Illusion and fiction -- 11. Creation and production -- 12. Pact and contract -- 13. Explanation and interpretation -- 14. Implicit and explicit -- 15. The spoken and the unspoken -- 16. The two questions -- 17. Interior and exterior -- 18. Depth and complexity -- 19. Lenin, critic of Tolstoy -- The image in the mirror -- 20. Literary analysis : the tomb of structures -- 21. Jules Verne : the faulty narrative -- 22. Borges and the fictive narrative -- 23. Balzac's Les Paysans : a disparate text -- App. Lenin's articles on Tolstoy.
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"Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published to French in 1966, Pierre Macherey's first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production, dared to challenge perceived wisdom, and quickly established him as a pivotal figure in literary theory." "In this provocative work, Macherey puts the focus as much on the reader as the writer, stating that the very act of reading is a form of production in its own right, generating interpretation and meanings which are beyond the control of the author." "Part of the birth of a whole new branch of post-structuralist theory, Macherey's work also influenced a new generation of critics - among them Jacques Derrida, his contemporary, and Terry Eagleton. His ideas have also led some observers to claim that he announced 'the death of the author' fully two years before Roland Barthes' famous essay."--Jacket.