Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William BlakeUniversity of Toronto Press, 15 դեկ, 1994 թ. - 245 էջ Although the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts. Creating States examines the visionary poetry of John Milton and William Blake, using a critical approach based on principles of speech-act theory as articulated by J.L. Austin, John Searle, and Emile Benveniste. Angela Esterhammer proposes a new way of understanding the relationship between these two poets, while at the same time evaluating the role of speech-act philosophy in the reading of visionary poetry and Romantic literature. Esterhammer distinguishes between the 'sociopolitical performative,' the speech act which is defined by a societal context and derives power from institutional authority, and the `phenomenological performative,' language which is invested with the power to posit or create because of the individual will and consciousness of the speaker. Analysing texts such as The Reason of Church-Government, Paradise Lost, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem, Esterhammer traces the parallel evolution of Milton and Blake from writers of political and anti-prelatical tracts to poets who, having failed in their attempts to alter historical circumstances through a direct address to their contemporaries, reaffirm their faith in individual visionary consciousness and the creative word – while continuing to use the forms of a socially or politically performative language. |
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... God to men ' - and the nar- rative , by its very existence , enacts the fulfilment of that condition ( i.e. , in writing the poem Milton does obtain answerable style and justify God's ways ) . Even the most basic elements of linguistic ...
... God's act of speaking the universe into existence in the first chapter of Genesis . If the Bible as a whole is precisely concerned with the Word's entry into , its actions in and on , human society - a process which , I shall argue ...
... God's speech acts , which function in the absence of society , con- vention , and even audience : ' divine beings are totally incapable of performative speech ' since ' where God is , speech - act theory has nothing to say ' ( Speech ...
... God to call each creature by its proper name : And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field , and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every ...
... God which lies behind the performative utterances of Genesis 1. Derrida's account of the way expression necessarily introduces a distinction between exteriority and interiority corresponds , in turn , to the way divine utterance in ' P ...
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The J Myth | 54 |
3 | 65 |
5 | 119 |
Relations in the State of Innocence | 132 |
Relations in the State of Experience | 143 |
Naming in The Book of Urizen | 152 |
The Argument of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | 158 |
A Song of Liberty | 167 |
Statements and States | 174 |
A Revision | 184 |
General and Special Inspiration | 70 |
Miltons Promise | 77 |
The Elision of the Performative | 85 |
The Performativity of Divine Speech | 99 |
Naming and Subjectivity | 110 |
A Division | 191 |
Creating States | 201 |
The Community of Phrases | 216 |
Index | 239 |