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The notion of the performative - an utterance that accomplishes the act that it designates | The notion of the performative - an utterance that accomplishes the act that it designates | ||
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1. why it appeared useful for literary theory and what happens when literature is laid out as fundamentally performative | 1. why it appeared useful for literary theory and what happens when literature is laid out as fundamentally performative | ||
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3. what role it plays in recent work in gender studies and queer theory | 3. what role it plays in recent work in gender studies and queer theory | ||
Questions are posed how to think about the constitutive force of language, the nature of discursive events and literature as an act. | |||
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The notion of the performative - an utterance that accomplishes the act that it designates
This article follows the change of this notion to show:
1. why it appeared useful for literary theory and what happens when literature is laid out as fundamentally performative
2. how it functions in theory and criticism associated with deconstruction
3. what role it plays in recent work in gender studies and queer theory
Questions are posed how to think about the constitutive force of language, the nature of discursive events and literature as an act.