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The “literary performative” in postmodernist fiction

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ID12370518
AutoresIrene Kacandes (The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume13
Fascículo2
Páginas139-153
Data de publicação1993-04-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoText and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10462939309366039
OpenAlexW2074460591
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas17

Based upon Austin's foundational concept of the performative, speech acts in which to say is to do, the concept “literary performative” describes statements in second person fiction which are actualized when read by any reader. The concept of the “literary performative” is tested with textual moments in three postmodernist works: John Barth's short prose piece “Life‐Story” Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City; and Halo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler. Naming, chronological discrepancies, and the encoding of gender are all shown to interfere with the execution of literary performatives. Yet botched performances effect the duplicitous stance of recognizing oneself as playing with the boundaries between “reality” and “literature”: the postmodernist project

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Linguistics · Literature · Performative utterance · Performativity · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis

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