On Deleuze’s Literary Machine And The Problem Of Subjectivity

The concept "literary machine" reveals the important role played by discussion about literature in Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy.This paper takes this concept as the thread,analyses texts concerning this concept and the connection between the genesis,development of this concept and the problem of subjectivity inspired by it,trying to establish a more coherent interpretative framework for this concept and more general discussion about philosophy and literature.The first part of this paper reinterprets two key texts about literary machine.From this perspective,they are two complementary theoretical dimensions with their own emphases.In the second part,this paper tries to demonstrate that the discussion about literary machine finally converge in Deleuzian immanent philosophy.In this context,literary machine reveals Deleuze’s immanent life and its related subjectivity theory’s creativity and possible theoretical challenges.Specifically speaking,through locating the discussion of literary machine in Deleuze’s early philosophy of which Difference and Repetition is the key work,this paper tries to explore the connection between literary machine and the aesthetic dimension of the subjectivity problem by study of sensitivity and artworks based on Proust and Signs,using the concept larval subject to rethink the subjectivity theory of literary machine in the latter work.Afterwards,this paper discusses the influence of Felix Guattari’s machine on the concept literary machine,combines the interpretation of co-authored Anti-Oedipus and reconstruction of Deleuzian immanent ethics and provides new theoretical foundation for understanding discussion about literary machine in Kafka,explaining the practical dimension of literary machine and subjectivity by the concept nomadic subject.Finally,this paper tries to integrate literary machine into life as a philosophical concept by Deleuze’s critical and clinical project.Examining Manfred Frank’s critique of Deleuze and Zizek’s agreements and disagreements with him,this paper reflects on the subjectivity theory of literary machine and the relation of philosophy and literature.