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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Minor Literature - Deleuze and Guattari

Michel Foucault states that, angiotensin-converting enzyme writes in devote to live other than what iodine is. In autobiography studies, Leigh Gilmore takes Foucaults maxim and explains it as follows: Autobiography offers an opportunity for egotism- interpretation. Moreover, by creation slight a report with a fixed content summarized at the end of a big life, autobiography becomes a unsound project in how to become other. Here, the transformative effect of autobiography points at one performative expression of literature.\nJonathan Culler points at the performativity of literature by stating that first, literary utterance brings into being characters and their actions, and second, literary works bring into being ideas, concepts, which they deploy. Culler concludes that literature takes its place among the acts of expression that transform the world, bringing into being the things that they name. In this regard, Cullers ideas add one further point to Foucauldia n instinct of transformative effect of writing, in the charge that, writing can not only transform the self  exactly also transform the world. In both(prenominal) cases, we can observe the performativity of literature.\nIn this regard, let us debate J. L. capital of Texass and Judith Butlers use of performativity by dint of Cullers interpretations. Culler states that Austin is interested in how the repeat of a formula on a single role makes something happen (you made a promise), while for Butler this is a special case of the gigantic 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.\nCuller quotes Butler, who says that itch derives its force precisely done the repeated invocation by which a social connect among homophobic communities is formed through time. This example indicates the negative aspect of pe...

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