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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... human relationships ' ( 31 ) , and the relevant context for interpreta- tion includes the debate between Burke and Paine on the nature of char- ters , as well as contemporary market relations and the condition of London's oppressed ...
... human beings and language : that linguistic communication is possible only because every speaker is able to actualize the system of language in a unique instance of discourse , an instance in which the subject itself is created : The ...
... human life , expectation and fulfilment are separated by a gulf of experience ; the expectation created within the poem , that human- kind will live a life of obedience in Paradise , has its fulfilment indefinitely deferred . But the ...
... human society - a process which , I shall argue , begins as early as the second chapter of Genesis it nevertheless opens with a model of performative utterance which pre - exists and tran- scends convention , operating instead as a pure ...
... human history begin with Searle's two non - institutional declar- ations or , conversely , why does Searle feel the need to accommodate his - theory of ordinary language so as to include the extraordinary Speech Acts and World - Creation ...
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31 | |
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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 |