Title
Minding the stops: Performance and affective stylistics
Abstract
Because performance particularizes and reifies all the component elements of the literary experience, it can be a valuable test of descriptions of the reading process. A comparison of performance practice and theory with one of the most famous descriptions of reading in contemporary literary theory, Stanley Fish's affective stylistics, demonstrates the accuracy of its claims. The study concludes that Fish's later rejection of affective stylistics is inconsistent with the neo‐pragmatism he currently espouses.
Department(s)
Theatre and Dance
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/10462939009365978
Publication Date
1-1-1990
Recommended Citation
Stucky, Nathan, Paul Gray, and Linda Park‐Fuller. "Minding the stops: Performance and affective stylistics." Text and Performance Quarterly 10, no. 4 (1990): 269-281.
Journal Title
Text and Performance Quarterly
