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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... nature of social representation in fictional and non - fic- tional texts of the nineteenth century , makes the affinities of this approach with new his- toricism and cultural materialism particularly clear . As a preliminary way of ...
... nature of char- ters , as well as contemporary market relations and the condition of London's oppressed . Edwards's reading concludes with a focus on the ' complicity of the Observing " I " ' in ' London ' ( 40 ) , which he reads as a ...
... Nature of Pronouns , ' Benveniste adds to the ' I / you ' cat- egory such forms as demonstratives ( ' this ' ) and adverbs of time and place ( ' here , ' ' now , ' ' today , ' ' tomorrow ' ) , insisting that traditional accounts of ...
... nature of things : ' Added implicitly to the gram- matical relationship that unites the members of the utterance is a " this is ! " that links the linguistic arrangement to the system of reality ' ( 133 ) . This def- inition allows ...
... nature of man . ( Quoted in Allegories 269 ) The aporia of the legal text , which de Man considers a paradigm for the figural dilemma of any text , emerges from the conflict of general and par- ticular will in the social contract and ...
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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 |