Literature as Conduct

Name: Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James
Brand: Fordham University Press
SKU: 9780823225378
Price: 4853.00 INR
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Speech Acts in Henry James

by J. Hillis Miller

Fordham University Press

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The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction. Three modes of speech act occur in James's novels. First, James's writing of his fictions is performative.

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