TY - BOOK ID - 77930615 TI - Exploring textual action AU - Gullestad, Anders. AU - Lombardo, Patrizia. AU - Stre, Lars. PY - 2010 SN - 8779347266 9788779347267 9788779344600 8779344607 PB - Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Critical theory. KW - Criticism (Philosophy) KW - Criticism, Textual. KW - Performative (Philosophy) KW - Performativity (Philosophy) KW - Language and languages KW - Methodology KW - Philosophy KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Textual criticism KW - Editing KW - Critical social theory KW - Critical theory (Philosophy) KW - Critical theory (Sociology) KW - Negative philosophy KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Rationalism KW - Sociology KW - Frankfurt school of sociology KW - Socialism KW - Epic poetry, Greek Criticism, Textual KW - Criticism, Textual UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77930615 AB - Exploring Textual Action questions how we analyse works of art after the performative turn and shows how the interplay of performativity (textual action), space and topography, and the converging of genres and art forms is essential in modern drama, theatre, prose fiction, poetry and film. The volume also fosters a keen concern for the development of congenial theory.Its 14 detailed essays analyse works of art ranging from Balzac, Melville and George Eliot, to Breton, Kafka, Benjamin, Blixen and Woolf; and from W.C. Williams, Bresson and Scorsese, to Sarraute, Duras, Reygadas, Dumont and Waltz ER -