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Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake

Contributor(s): Esterhammer, Angela (Author)

ISBN: 9780802005625

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Pub Date: August 10, 1994

Dewey: 821.009

LCCN: 95121110

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.94" H x 9.42" L x 5.94" W ( 1.15 lbs) 245 pages

Series: Heritage

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Description:

A study of the language of visionary poetry, making use of the principles of speech-act philosophy to analyze the creative properties of utterance from the Bible to the work of Milton and Blake.

Brief description:

Angela Esterhammer is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Zurich, and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario.

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