Victorian poetry as cultural critique : the politics of performative language
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Victorian poetry as cultural critique : the politics of performative language
（Victorian literature and culture series）
University of Virginia Press, 2003
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index
収録内容
- Poetry and culture : performativity and critique
- Browning's Bishop conceives a tomb : cultural ordering as cultural critique
- The mark as matrix : subject(ion) and agency in Barrett Browning's "The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point"
- Clough's resisted performative : material act and bacchanalian revel in Dipsychus
- Prostitution, representation, and desire : the politics of male liberalism in D. G. Rossetti's "Jenny"
- Webster's castaway courtesan : living on the cultural margin
- Afterword : form as process
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In recent cultural studies, poetry has become something of a neglected genre. Warwick Slinn seeks to reverse that trend and argues 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. This volume discusses five Victorian poems in order to show how their display of language enacts a cultural critique, examining the conditions and realization of social and political discourses. Slinn begins by distinguishing the main conceptual strands of performativity and then explains how each poem dramatizes a fluid mix of identity, power and ideology. By foregrounding such events as speech acts, these poems expose the politics of power relationships and show how performative language is inextricable from the means by which power relationships are enacted. Focusing on the internal dynamics of specific poems, Slinn challenges the separation of poetic language from social criticism and eventually questions traditional perceptions of poetic form itself. The selected poems, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Augusta Webster, offer a range of contentious issues that are in themselves politically challenging. The poets address such diverse and problematic concerns as slavery, sexual politics, prostitution, consciousness, agency, aestheticism, religious belief and philosophical idealism. The discussion of each poem attends to the complexity of the poem's utterance, its historical contexts, and its broader implications for cultural meaning.
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