Creating States : : Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake / / Angela Esterhammer.
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 ba...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- References and Abbreviations
- Prologue: Words, Worlds, Acts, and Visions
- 1. Performative Language and Visionary Poetry
- 2. Speech Acts and World-Creation
- 3. The Language of Inspiration in Milton's Prose
- 4. Paradise Lost: The Creation of Poetry and the Poetry of Creation
- 5. The Circumference of Vision: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- 6. Binding the Infinite: Blake's Brief Epics
- 7. Blake's Jerusalem: Statements and States
- Bibliography
- Index