LEADER 04634nam 2200877 450 001 9910780695603321 005 20230912130041.0 010 $a1-4875-9675-8 010 $a1-282-00300-3 010 $a9786612003004 010 $a1-4426-7357-5 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442673571 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003986 035 $a(OCoLC)666907168 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10195472 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000292936 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11236759 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292936 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274414 035 $a(PQKB)10296622 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417563 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600089 035 $a(DE-B1597)464373 035 $a(OCoLC)944178310 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442673571 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671399 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257109 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104634 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/6qt2r6 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/417563 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671399 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3250366 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003986 100 $a20160922h19941994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreating states $estudies in the performative language of John Milton and William Blake /$fAngela Esterhammer 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1994. 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4426-1494-3 311 $a0-8020-0562-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue: Words, Worlds, Acts, and Visions -- 1. Performative Language and Visionary Poetry -- 2. Speech Acts and World-Creation -- 3. The Language of Inspiration in Milton's Prose -- 4. Paradise Lost: The Creation of Poetry and the Poetry of Creation -- 5. The Circumference of Vision: Songs of Innocence and of Experience -- 6. Binding the Infinite: Blake's Brief Epics -- 7. Blake's Jerusalem: Statements and States. 330 8 $aAnalysing texts such as The Reason of Church Government, Paradise Lost, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem, Esterhammer traces the parallel evolution of Milton and Blake from writers of political and anti-prelatical tracts to poets who, having failed in their attempts to alter historical circumstances through a direct address to their contemporaries, reaffirm their faith in individual visionary consciousness and the creative word - while continuing to use the forms of a socially or politically performative language. 330 8 $aEsterhammer distinguishes between the 'socio-political performative, ' the speech act which is defined by a societal context and derives power from institutional authority, and the 'phenomenological performative, ' language which is invested with the power to posit or create because of the individual will and consciousness of the speaker. 330 8 $aAngela Esterhammer proposes a new way of understanding the relationship between Milton and Blake, while at the same time evaluating the role of speech-act philosophy in the reading of visionary poetry and Romantic literature. 330 $aAlthough the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts. Creating States examines the visionary poetry of John Milton and William Blake, using a critical approach based on principles of speech-act theory as articulated by J.L. Austin, John Searle, and Emile Benveniste. 606 $aEnglish language$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xStyle 606 $aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish language$xVersification 606 $aVisions in literature 606 $aPerformative (Philosophy) 606 $aSpeech acts (Linguistics) 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish language$xStyle. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish language$xVersification. 615 0$aVisions in literature. 615 0$aPerformative (Philosophy) 615 0$aSpeech acts (Linguistics) 676 $a821.009 700 $aEsterhammer$b Angela$01503100 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780695603321 996 $aCreating states$93731299 997 $aUNINA