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
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| Dimensions: |
250 x 147 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
152 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-3500-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-8223-3500-X |
| Barcode: |
9780822335009 |
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