Speech Acts in Blake's Milton

ISBN-13: 9781032379180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 136 str.

Brian Russell Graham

Opis

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s and Blake’s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading　of the　speech acts　of characters　in Blake’s　epic poem　Milton.

O autorze

Brian Russell Graham is a two-time graduate of the University of Glasgow, where he completed an M.A. (Hons.) and PhD in English Literature. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School. His first monograph, The Necessary Unity of Opposites, published in 2011, is a study of Northrop Frye, particularly Frye’s dialectical thinking. His second monograph, On a Common Culture, was published in 2022.