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020			_a9781442673571 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z9781442614949
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035			_a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671399
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035			_a(OCoLC)666907168
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050		4	_aPR3596 .E83 1994
082	0		_a821.009
100	1		_aEsterhammer, Angela.
245	1	0	_aCreating States : _bStudies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c1994.
264		4	_c©1994.
300			_a1 online resource (264 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aHeritage Series
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- References and Abbreviations -- Prologue: Words, Worlds, Acts, and Visions -- 1 Performative Language and Visionary Poetry -- Parole and Its Contexts -- The Speaker as Performer -- Utterance and Context: Two Directions for Analysis -- Speech Acts in the Text -- The Text as Speech Act -- Sociopolitical versus Phenomenological Performatives -- The Integration of Sociopolitical and Phenomenological Performatives: Searle and Benveniste -- Authority and Subjectivity: Benveniste and Barthes -- The Deconstructive Turn -- 2 Speech Acts and World-Creation -- Supernatural Performatives -- Genesis 1-3 in the Philosophy of Language -- Phenomenological Performatives: The 'P' Myth -- Sociopolitical Performatives: The 'J' Myth -- Scenes of Creation in Philosophy and Literature -- 3 The Language of Inspiration in Milton's Prose -- Milton's Word: Theology and Logology -- 'General' and 'Special' Inspiration -- Self-Presentation in The Reason of Church-Government -- Milton's Promise -- Legal Contract and Ecclesiastical Oath -- The Elision of the Performative -- 4 Paradise Lost: The Creation of Poetry and the Poetry of Creation -- Creation and 'Firstness' in the Invocations -- The Performativity of Divine Speech -- Divine Creation and Verbal Performance -- Naming and Subjectivity -- 5 The Circumference of Vision: Songs of Innocence and of Experience -- Perspectives on Blake's Vision -- 'Introduction' to Innocence: The Performative as Self-Expression -- Relations in the State of Innocence -- 'Introduction' to Experience: The Performative as Institutionalized Utterance -- Relations in the State of Experience -- 6 Binding the Infinite: Blake's Brief Epics -- Bounding and Binding -- Naming in The Book of Urizen -- The 'Argument' of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell -- The Intersection of Will and Act -- 'A Song of Liberty'.
505	8		_a7 Blake's Jerusalem: Statements and States -- Vision, Prophecy, Reading, and Performance -- Adamic Language and Blakean Naming -- Inspiration: A Revision -- Creation: A Division -- Moral Law and Divine Voice -- Creating States -- Living Words -- The Community of Phrases -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
520			_aA study of the language of visionary poetry, making use of the principles of speech-act philosophy to analyze the creative properties of utterance from the Bible to the work of Milton and Blake.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aMilton, John,-1608-1674-Language.
650		0	_aBlake, William,-1757-1827-Language.
650		0	_aEnglish language-Early modern, 1500-1700-Style.
650		0	_aEnglish poetry-History and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish language-Versification.
650		0	_aVisions in literature.
650		0	_aPerformative (Philosophy).
650		0	_aSpeech acts (Linguistics).
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aEsterhammer, Angela _tCreating States _dToronto : University of Toronto Press,c1994 _z9781442614949
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aHeritage Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4671399 _zClick to View
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