Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Minor Literature - Deleuze and Guattari
Michel Foucault states that, adeptness writes in redact to survive other than what one is. In autobiography studies, Leigh Gilmore takes Foucaults dominance and explains it as follows: Autobiography offers an luck for egotism- transformation. Moreover, by be less(prenominal) a report with a fixed content summarized at the end of a abundant life, autobiography becomes a defective project in how to become other. Here, the transformative effect of autobiography points at one performative formulation of literature.\nJonathan Culler points at the performativity of literature by stating that first, literary utterance brings into existence characters and their actionsÂ, and second, literary works bring into being ideas, concepts, which they deploy. Culler concludes that literature takes its place among the acts of manner of speaking that transform the world, bringing into being the things that they name. In this regard, Cullers ideas add one further point to Foucauldian horse sense of transformative effect of writing, in the way of life that, writing can non only transform the self  simply also transform the worldÂ. In both cases, we can observe the performativity of literature.\nIn this regard, let us talk of J. L. capital of Texass and Judith Butlers use of performativity by Cullers interpretations. Culler states that Austin is interested in how the repeating of a formula on a single causation makes something happen (you made a promise)Â, while for Butler this is a special case of the grand and obligatory repetition that produces diachronic and social realities (you become a woman). Culler defines Austins understanding of the performative as follows: Performative utterances do not describe but perform the action they designate.Â\nCuller quotes Butler, who says that left over(p) derives its force precisely through with(predicate) the repeated invocation by which a social vex among homophobic communities is formed through time.  This example indicates the negative aspect of pe...
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