Pierre Macherey points out that the text rather than a self-contained work of art is a product in which disparate materials are worked over and changed in the process of its creation. What does the phrase 'Disparate materials' indicate?
Pierre Macherey’s A Theory of Literary
Production (1966) was the first extended Althusserian discussion of art and
ideology. Instead of treating the text as a ‘creation’ or a s...