The language of atoms : performativity and politics in Lucretius' De rerum natura / W. H. Shearin.

While scholarship on Lucretius has looked to connect De rerum natura to its larger cultural and historical context, it has never turned to speech act theory in this quest. This omission is striking at least in so far as speech act theory was developed precisely as a way of locating language (includi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shearin, W. H. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Lucretius Carus, Titus > Language. Lucretius Carus, Titus. > De rerum natura. Atoms. Language and languages.
Physical Description:	xiii, 210 pages ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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