TY - EJOUR TI - “‘But I still exist!’ Performativity and illocutionary force in Maldoror’s Chants” T2 - Cahiers Lautréamont 2022, n° 4. varia DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14191-4.p.0211 SN - 2607-754X AB - Mathilde Ollivier examines a stylistic feature of Lautréamont’s work in the light of Austin’s linguistic theories: the narrator’s very rhetorical speech is often highly performative, with Ducasse enjoying bringing a world to life at will, purely through the power of assertion. PY - 2022 DA - 2022/10/05 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier KW - Lautréamont, Maldoror, Ducasse, Austin, performativity, language, rhetoric, linguistics, illocutory, power of saying, doing. UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/cahiers-lautreamont-2022-n-4-varia-but-i-still-exist.html Y2 - 2024/07/17 ER -