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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... rhetorical forms and the language sanctioned by societal institu- tions makes itself felt throughout his work . Milton and Blake go through a parallel evolution from writers of political and anti - prelatical tracts to poets who ...
... rhetoric of law , economics , or politics . The speech - act model focuses attention on the positions from which these poets are speaking and the authority behind their words - and on the way these positions and sources of authority ...
... rhetoric of declara- tion and personal and public address and use it to create ideal audiences , like Milton's Adam and Eve in conversation with Raphael or the four groups of readers to whom the four chapters of Jerusalem are addressed ...
... rhetorical structure which ultimately helps make possible the fulfilment of his poetic vision in dialogue and declaration : ' And I heard the Name of their Emanations they are named Jerusalem . ' Both the prefaces and the conclusion of ...
... rhetoric and cognitive rhetoric ... fail to converge ' ( Allegories 300 ) , is even more clearly illustrated by his discussion of Rousseau's political writings . The analysis of promising in the Social Contract , which sets out de Man's ...
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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 |