Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

Literature & Fiction

Loxley, James

ROBSON, MARK

History & Criticism

Routledge

Ben Jonson (Routledge Guides to Literature)

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dramas & Plays

This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.

British & Irish

Performativity (The New Critical Idiom)

Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the languages we speak might be ‘performative’ in just this way, and their thinking on the topic has had an important impact on a broad range of academic disciplines.  In this accessible introduction to a sometimes complex field, James Loxley:  offers a concise and original account of critical debates around the idea of performativity traces the history of the concept through the work of such influential theorists as J. L. Austin, John Searle, Stanley Fish, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and Judith Butler examines the implications of performativity for fields such as literary and cultural theory, philosophy, performance studies, and the theory of gender and sexuality. emphasises the political and ethical implications that its most important theorists have drawn from the notion of performativity suggests ways in which major debates around the topic have obscured its alternative interpretations and uses.    For students trying to make sense of performativity and related concepts such as the speech act, ‘ordinary language’, and iterability, and for those seeking to understand the place of these ideas in contemporary performance theory, this clear guide will prove indispensable. Performativity offers not only a path through challenging critical terrain, but a new understanding of just what is at stake in the exploration of this field.

Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the languages we speak might be ‘performative’ in just this way, and their thinking on the topic has had an important impact on a broad range of academic disciplines. In this accessible introduction to a sometimes complex field, James Loxley: <ul>
<li>offers a concise and original account of critical debates around the idea of performativity</li> <li>traces the history of the concept through the work of such influential theorists as J. L. Austin, John Searle, Stanley Fish, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and Judith Butler</li> <li>examines the implications of performativity for fields such as literary and cultural theory, philosophy, performance studies, and the theory of gender and sexuality.</li> <li>emphasises the political and ethical implications that its most important theorists have drawn from the notion of performativity</li> <li>suggests ways in which major debates around the topic have obscured its alternative interpretations and uses.</li> </ul> For students trying to make sense of performativity and related concepts such as the speech act, ‘ordinary language’, and iterability, and for those seeking to understand the place of these ideas in contemporary performance theory, this clear guide will prove indispensable. Performativity offers not only a path through challenging critical terrain, but a new understanding of just what is at stake in the exploration of this field.

This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: <ul>
<li>show how the investigation of performativity can enable readings of Shakespeare and Jonson that challenge the dominant methodological frameworks within which those plays have come to be read;</li> </ul> <ul>
<li>demonstrate that the thought of performativity does not come to rest in the simplicity of method or instrumentality, and that it resists its own claim that language and action might be understood as unproblematically instrumental;</li> </ul> <ul><li>demonstrate that this self-resistance occurs or takes place as a moment in the process of articulating the claims of the performative, and that this process is itself in an important sense dramatic.</li></ul>

Performativity

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Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

Ben Jonson (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Ben Jonson (Routledge Guides to Literature)

Performativity (The New Critical Idiom)

Performativity (The New Critical Idiom)

Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

Performativity

Ben Jonson

Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative