Speech Acts in Literature

by J. Hillis Miller

Book Overview

This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech acts, literature is an indispensable presence within Austin's book. It contains many literary references but also uses as essential tools literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804742162
• ISBN13: 9780804742160
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"