Literature as a Type of Performance

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10.2991/icesame-17.2017.222How to use a DOI?

Keywords

speech act theory; literary performativity

Abstract

Literary performance, which has developed into a special theoretical concept in contemporary times, directly originated from the speech act theory proposed by John Langshaw Austin and John Rogers Searle. Later on, scholars such as Stanley Eugene Fish, Wolfgang Iser and Judith Butler massively expounded the theory of literary performance, based on the speech act theory. The theory of literary performance has brought about more conscious realization of the natures of performativity, expressiveness and communicativeness of literary creation, which acts as a vital opportunity for the gradual shift from the post-structuralist world as text to the post-theatrical world as performance and has exerted positive and important influence on the contemporary research of literary theory.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Cunjiu Kuang
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