00826nam0-22002771i-450-99000849965040332120070720094426.00-85498-116-0000849965FED01000849965(Aleph)000849965FED0100084996520070410d1975----km-y0itay0103----baengGBTemperature measurement, 1975conference series number 26B. F. Billing, T. J. QuinnLondraThe Institute of Physics London and Bristol1975Billing,Bernard Frederick300565Quinn,T. J.195573ITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK99000849965040332100 D3831693DETECDETECTemperature measurement, 1975731713UNINA04276 am 22005893u 450 991030659890332120200813202757.01-299-41041-33-653-00209-5(CKB)2670000000253098(EBL)1056385(OCoLC)818880609(SSID)ssj0000721912(PQKBManifestationID)12296929(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721912(PQKBWorkID)10694314(PQKB)10739268(MiAaPQ)EBC1056385(EXLCZ)99267000000025309820100513d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThey aren't, until I call them[electronic resource] performing the subject in American literature /Enikő BollobásFrankfurt am Main ;New York Peter Langc20101 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-631-58982-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7; INTRODUCTION 9; CHAPTER ONE: THE STRONG PERFORMATIVE 25; The performative: early history 25; Logos, the originary instance of the strong performative: some Biblical examples 31; A performative genre par excellence: the declaration and the manifesto 38; Word power (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Norman Mailer, 'The Time of Her Time') 45; Alternative realities as performative creations (Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger; Ambrose Bierce, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge') 50The language games of irony and make-believe (Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) 59CHAPTER TWO: EXTENDING THE PERFORMATIVE 71; Performativity in theories of the subject 73; Performance and performative constructions of the subject 85; Performativity of reading and writing 89; Presupposition 92; Presupposition and the (performative) production of meaning 93; CHAPTER THREE: PERFORMING GENDER 97; Recipes for men and women: gender as (hetero)sexualized performance 103; Gender performances and performative genders 106Performances of gender compliance (Henry James, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings'; Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth) 108; The performance of cultural codes: the Southern woman (William Faulkner, 'A Rose for Emily'; Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Flannery O'Connor, 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find') 120; Some misogynist reversals (Jonathan Swift, 'A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed,' T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land) 129Performative genders: non-compliance with social norms (Gertrude Stein, Three Lives Willa Cather, My Ántonia; Djuna Barnes, Nightwood; H.D., HERmione; Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe) 131; CHAPTER FOUR: PERFORMING SEXUALITY 151; The new kid on the block of binary thinking: conceptualizing the homosexual 153; The resisting narrative: homosexual subtext beneath the heterosexual text (Henry James, 'The Beast in the Jungle,' 'In the Cage') 156; CHAPTER FIVE: PERFORMING PASSING 167; Gender passing (Mark Twain, Is He Dead?; Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; David Hwang, M. Butterfly) 168The convergence of categories: race and class passing (James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nella Larsen, Passing; Philip Roth, The Human Stain) 182; CONCLUSION 201; WORKS CITED 205; INDEX 225American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismPerformance in literatureAmerican literatureThemes, motivesElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Performance in literature.American literatureThemes, motives.820Bollobás Enikő946663MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910306598903321They aren't, until I call them2138861UNINA