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Performativity /

"For students trying to make sense of the 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 guide will prove indispensable. Performativ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Loxley, James, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:New critical idiom.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From the performative to the speech act : J.L. Austin
  • Philosophy and ordinary language : Austin and Cavell
  • A general theory of speech acts : Searle
  • Speech acts, fiction and deconstruction : Searle, Fish and Derrida
  • Performativity, iterability and politics : Derrida and de Man
  • Being performative : Butler
  • Performativity and performance theory.