| The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages Contributor(s): Felman, Shoshana (Author), Cavell, Stanley (Foreword by), Butler, Judith (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0804744521 ISBN-13: 9780804744522 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: " The Scandal of the Speaking Body-- one of the most brilliant and daring and disturbing works of its period, which appeared in English translation in 1984 [under the title The Literary Speech Act] . . . has never found the full radius of readers it assumes and deserves." -- From the Forewordby Stanley Cavell |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| LCCN: 2002013197 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.78" W x 8.75" (0.72 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Moli re's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century philosopher, she explores the relation between speech and the erotic, using a literary text as the ground for a telling encounter between philosophy, linguistics, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. In the years since the publication of this book (which the author today calls "the boldest, the most provocative, but also the most playful" she has written), speech act theory has continued to play a central and defining role in the theories of sexuality, gender, performance studies, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies. This book remains topical as readers increasingly discover how multiply relevant the speaking body is. Moving beyond the domain of formal linguistic analysis to address these questions, the author has written a daring and seductive book. |