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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... expression when we communicate the idea of imag- ining is ' I am having ... an image ' ( ' Ich habe ... [ eine ] Vorstellung ' ) , but Wittgenstein invalidates the literal ( or even metaphorical ) meaning Performative Language and ...
... expressions as performative by the presence of conventional formulas such as ' I promise that ' or ' I declare , ' expressions which , among other things , give what follows the status of a dictum rather than a factum . This ...
... expression ' ( 155 ) . More specifically , Levin implies that a speech - act reading of this sort focuses attention on the vatic element in lit- erature , since the imaginative lyric represents the kind of illocutionary act ' that we ...
... expression functions in the same manner as official declarations . Rather , the distinction has been brought about by Austin's followers in their attempts to establish reliable methods of categorizing the performative . Both John Searle ...
... ( Expression and Meaning 17 ) . This is the only type of performative in which the ' direction of fit ' between word and world goes both ways : the world is immediately made to fit the words , and by virtue of this the words fit , because ...
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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 |