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- Title
The Performativity of Literature.
- Authors
Chitanu, Cristina
- Abstract
Performativity in the philosophy of language means that certain deeds may be done using language, strictly speaking in speech, and the theory has become known as "speech-act theory," its first theoreticians being J. L. Austin and John Searle. This article investigates the performativity of the text per se, how literature can "perform" for the reader, while also interpreting some related concepts: performance, drama, script, and intermediality through the analysis of three highly popular plays: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion.
- Subjects
PERFORMATIVE (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY of language; SPEECH act theory (Communication); DRAMA; HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare); IMPORTANCE of Being Earnest, The (Play : Wilde); PYGMALION (Play : Shaw)
- Publication
Anachronist, 2010, Vol 15, p73
- ISSN
1219-2589
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.53720/pnkf5872