Destruction in the Performative by Alice Lagaay
Cultural transformation tends to be described in one of two ways: either with reference to what comes about, is created or emerges in the process of change or with reference to what is destroyed or obscured in that process. Within a performative paradigm, that is, from a perspective which focuses on the manner in which social and cultural reality is constituted or brought about by human activity, theorists have, in recent years, tended to underline the productive aspects of transformation by emphasising the creative thrust of performative processes and events. In so doing, this perspective has tended to overlook the extent to which a certain destructive element may in fact be inherent to such performative processes. Drawing upon a range of historical and contemporary constellations of socio-cultural change and a variety of different types of events and activities, the articles in this volume describe different forms of destruction and their respective role in processes of transformation.Their shared aim is to explore the manner in which destructivity, such as the destabilisation and destruction of orders, subjects and bodies, can be grasped by concepts of performativity. In other words, to what extent may a certain destructive dynamic be inscribed within this very notion?
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Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
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Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"
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Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
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Eliot's "Waste Land"
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Shakespeare's "Othello"
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Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
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Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"
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Shakespeare's History Plays
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Milton's "Paradise Lost"
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Poetry of William Wordsworth
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Shakespeare's "King Richard II"
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Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
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Tennyson
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Shakespeare's "King Lear"
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Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"
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Dickens' "Great Expectations"
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Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
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George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss"
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Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
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Austen's "Emma" and "Persuasion"
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Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida"
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Poetry of W.B. Yeats
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Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"
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Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale"
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Shakespeare's "As You Like it"
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Hardy's "Return of the Native"
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Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
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Poetry of Alexander Pope
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Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure"
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The Poetry of William Blake
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Demenageries
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Replacement
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Utopian Dreams against the Grain
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The Montage Principle
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Gender across Media Landscapes
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Evolution and Popular Narrative
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Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World
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| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9789042034570 |
| ISBN 10 | 9042034572 |
| Title | Destruction in the Performative |
| Author | Alice Lagaay |
| Series | Critical Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2012-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
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