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Performativity (Paperback, New edition)
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Performativity (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The New Critical Idiom
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Loot Price R237
Discovery Miles 2 370
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Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world,
or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If
so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications?
Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the
languages we speak might be 'performative' in just this way, and
their thinking on the topic has had an important impact on a broad
range of academic disciplines. In this accessible introduction to a
sometimes complex field, James Loxley: offers a concise and
original account of critical debates around the idea of
performativity traces the history of the concept through the work
of such influential theorists as J. L. Austin, John Searle, Stanley
Fish, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and Judith Butler examines the
implications of performativity for fields such as literary and
cultural theory, philosophy, performance studies, and the theory of
gender and sexuality. emphasises the political and ethical
implications that its most important theorists have drawn from the
notion of performativity suggests ways in which major debates
around the topic have obscured its alternative interpretations and
uses. For students trying to make sense of performativity and
related concepts such as the speech act, 'ordinary language', and
iterability, and for those seeking to understand the place of these
ideas in contemporary performance theory, this clear guide will
prove indispensable. Performativity offers not only a path through
challenging critical terrain, but a new understanding of just what
is at stake in the exploration of this field.
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