Performatively speaking : speech and action in antebellum American literature /
In Performatively Speaking, Debra Rosenthal draws on speech act theory to open up the current critical conversation about antebellum American fiction and culture and to explore what happens when writers use words not just to represent action but to constitute action itself. Examining moments of disc...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press
2015.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1287zxz |
Sommario:
- Introduction: Discursive action, or doing by saying
- Slave promises and the temperance pledge
- Theorizing the signature in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall
- The Scarlet A as action
- Verbal violence in Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Action and injurious speech in Moby-Dick
- Conclusion: The right words and national standing.