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Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust’s monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust’s narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language. Proust, in other words, is interested in what linguistic anthropologists call language-in-use. Michael Lucey elucidates Proust’s approach to language-in-use in a number of ways: principally in relation to linguistic anthropology, but also in relation to speech act theory, and to Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. The book also includes an interlude after each of its chapters that contextualizes Proust’s social-scientific practice of novel writing in relation to that of a number of other novelists, earlier and later, and from several different traditions, including Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Nathalie Sarraute, and Rachel Cusk. Lucey is thus able to show how, in the hands of quite different novelists, various aspects of the novel form become instruments of linguistic anthropological analysis. The result introduces a different way of understanding language to literary and cultural critics and explores the consequences of this new understanding for the practice of literary criticism more generally.

Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature --- Proust, Marcel,

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The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single perception shape identified as a cultural, literary or social stereotype.

Language and languages in literature --- Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature --- English language --- Language and culture --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Style --- Language and languages in literature. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature. --- Language and culture. --- Style. --- Culture and language --- English literature --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Culture --- Rhetoric --- English language. --- Language and languages-Style. --- Literature. --- Pragmatics. --- Phonology. --- Literacy. --- English. --- Stylistics. --- Literature, general. --- Phonology and Phonetics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Germanic languages --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Philosophy --- Language and languages—Style. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology --- Phonology

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On Pain of Speech tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. Focusing on the "politics of address," Dina Al-Kassim views the rant through the lens of Michel Foucault's notion of the biopolitical subject and finds that its abject address is an essential yet overlooked feature of modernism. Deftly approaching disparate fields-decadent modernism, queer studies, subjection, critical psychoanalysis, and postcolonial avant-garde-and encompassing both Euro-American and Francophone Arabic modernisms, she offers an ambitious theoretical perspective on the ongoing redefinition of modernism. She includes readings of Jane Bowles, Abdelwahab Meddeb, and Oscar Wilde, and invokes a wide range of ideas, including those of Theodor Adorno, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Judith Butler, Jean Laplanche, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Protest literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Psychoanalysis in literature. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- avant garde. --- biopolitical. --- civil rights. --- decadent modernism. --- euro american. --- francophone arabic. --- free address. --- freedom of speech. --- freud. --- human rights. --- intersectional. --- judith butler. --- lacan. --- literary criticism. --- literary rant. --- literary theory. --- literary. --- modern history. --- modernism. --- nonfiction. --- oscar wilde. --- political science. --- politics of address. --- postcolonialism. --- psychoanalysis. --- queer studies. --- redefinition. --- resistance. --- rights. --- self expression. --- speech. --- subjection. --- theoretical perspective. --- thought provoking.

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Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of speech act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority.

Greek drama --- Oaths in literature --- Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature. --- Théâtre grec --- Serments dans la littérature --- Actes de parole dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Aeschylus --- Sophocles --- Euripides --- Aristophanes --- Oaths in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Classical Greek literature --- Literary rhetorics --- Drama --- Théâtre grec --- Serments dans la littérature --- Actes de parole dans la littérature --- Euripides. --- Sophocles. --- Aeschylus. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Aristofan --- Arystofanes --- Aristophane --- Aristofane --- Arisutopanesu --- Arisutofanesu --- Aristófanes --- Aristophanes Comicus --- אריסטופאנוס --- אריסטופאנס --- אריסטופאנס. כספי זיוה --- אריסטופניס --- אריסטופנס --- Ἀριστοφάνης --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Sophocle --- Sófocles --- Sofoklis --- Sophoclis --- Sofokl --- Sūfūklīs --- Sofokles --- Sūtmūklīs --- Sofocle --- Sophokles --- Sofokŭl --- סופוקלס --- سوفوكليس --- Σοφοκλῆς --- Eskhil --- Eschylus --- Aischylos --- Esquilo --- Eschilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Esḳilos --- Eschyle --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος