Victorian poetry as cultural critique: the politics of performative language

"In Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique, E. Warwick Slinn explores works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Augusta Webster, arguing that a fundamental continuity between the meaning of a poetic trope and the social function of lang...

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Main Author: Slinn, Errol W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville [u.a.] University of Virginia Press 2003
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"In Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique, E. Warwick Slinn explores works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Augusta Webster, arguing that a fundamental continuity between the meaning of a poetic trope and the social function of language can be established through speech act theory - specifically through the linguistically based model of performativity."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:X, 217 S.
ISBN:081392166X

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