Impersonal Passion - Language as Affect (Paperback, New)

Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and politics. In Impersonal Passion, she turns to everyday complex emotional and philosophical problems of speaking and listening. Her provocative meditations suggest that while the emotional power of language is impersonal, this impersonality paradoxically constitutes the personal. In nine linked essays, Riley deftly unravels the rhetoric of life's absurdities and urgencies, its comforts and embarrassments, to insist on the forcible affect of language itself. She teases out the emotional complexities of such quotidian matters as what she ironically terms the right to be lonely in the face of the imperative to be social or the guilt associated with feeling as if you're lying when you aren't. Impersonal Passion reinvents questions from linguistics, the philosophy of language, and cultural theory in an illuminating new idiom: the compelling emotion of the language of the everyday.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	April 2005
Authors:	Denise Riley
Dimensions:	235 x 146 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	152
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-3512-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	0-8223-3512-3
Barcode:	9780822335122

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