Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- De Gaynesford, Maximilian.
Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry.
- Published
- Peter Robinson, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 617-37.
- Description
- Explores poetic speech acts (following the lead of J. L. Austin), treating Chaucer's dedication of his book in TC 5.1856-62 as an exemplary type of performative speech act--"the Chaucer-Type"--characterized by having three explicit constitutive features: "verbal form [grammatically first person singular present indicative active], self-guarantee, and self-reference." Analyzes uses of this type, by Chaucer and by later poets, to argue that speech act theory can be applied fruitfully to the study of poetry.
- Contributor
- Robinson, Peter, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Troilus and Criseyde