Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

ebook ∣ Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

By James Loxley

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ebook

ISBN

9780367864880

Series

Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Author

James Loxley

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Release

05 March 2013

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Literary Criticism Nonfiction

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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:

  • 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;

  • 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;

  • 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.

    • Format

    ebook

    ISBN

    9780367864880

    Series

    Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    Author

    James Loxley

    Publisher

    Taylor & Francis

    Release

    05 March 2013

    Share

    Subjects

    Literary Criticism Nonfiction
    Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative