How to do things with literature: Blasphemous speech acts, satanic intentions, and the uncommunicativeness of verses

Poetics Today

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 473-523

  Allington, Daniel ^a  

^a Open University

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DOI: 10.1215/03335372-074     Document Type: Review

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