Key Texts

This list includes the texts as referenced across the Introducing Performativity wikia as well as suggested further reading.

Austin, John Langshaw
(1962) Sense and Sensibilia, G.J. Warnock (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(1963) 'Performative-Constative', trans. G.J. Warnock, in C.E. Caton (ed.), Philosophy and Ordinary Language, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 22-54.

(1975) How to Do Things with Words, J.O. Urmson and Marina Sbisa (eds), 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press

(1979) Philosophical Papers, J.O. Urmson and G.J. Warnock (eds), 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich
(1981) The Dialogic Imagination: four essays, C. Emerson and M. Holquist (trans.), M. Holquist (ed.), Austin Texas: University of Texas Press

(1984) Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, C. Emerson (trans. and ed.), Minneapolis Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

(1984b) Rabelais and His World, Helene Iswolsky (trans.), Bloomington: Indiana University Press

(1986) Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, V.W. Mcgee (trans.), C. Emerson and M. Holquist (eds), Austin Texas: University of Texas Press.

Butler, Judith
(1987) Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France, Columbia: Columbia University Press.

(1988) 'Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory' in S. Case (ed.) Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 270-82.

(1991) 'Imitation and Gender Insubordination,' in Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. Diana Fuss New York: Routledge, 13–31.

(1993) Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, New York and London: Routledge

(1997) Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, New York and London: Routledge

(1999) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 2nd edition, New York and London: Routledge.

(2004) Undoing Gender, New York and London: Routledge.

Derrida, Jacques
(1978) Writing and Difference, trans. A. Bass, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

(1988) Limited Inc, trans. S. Weber, Evanston: Chicago University Press.

Searle, John
(1969) Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

(1977) 'Reiterating the Differences: A reply to Derrida', Glyph 1: 198-208.

(1979) Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sedgewick, Eve
(2003) Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Durkham: Duke University Press.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig
(2001) Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. Anscombe, 3rd edition, Oxford: Blackwell.