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Paperback Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James Book

ISBN: 0823225380

ISBN13: 9780823225385

Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James

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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. He puts on paper words that have the power...

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