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...
Main Author: | Shearin, W. H. (Author) |
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Physical Description: | xiii, 210 pages ; 25 cm |
Format: | Book |