A conceptualization of the literary aesthetic for a concern for the Self.Bringing Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks the ways in which literature is understood and taught.The Literary Function Being Constructivist Rethinking the Performative in Pragmatics The Literary Function and the Cartographic Turn: Performative Philosophy The Literary Function and Society, I: Affirmation of Immanent Aesthetics The Literary Function and Society, II: Community and Subjectification The Reader and The Event of Fiction Degrees of FreedomSABRINA ACHILLES Lecturer of English at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.