Denise Riley

Impersonal Passion

Language as Affect

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Produktbeschreibung

"Denise Riley writes a poet's prose, and her theoretical originality more than matches the engaging quality of her writing. She breathes life into the claim that the 'I' is an effect of language and draws her reader in both for the sake of her brilliant unpacking of existential idioms and for her renewal of the theoretical questions of where and how language locates us and how and with what effect we can relocate ourselves."--Ellen Rooney, Brown University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 151mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335122
• ISBN-10: 0822335123
• Artikelnr.: 22141643

Autorenporträt

Denise Riley

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Malediction 9
2. "What I Want Back Is What I Was": Consolation's Retrospect 29
3. The Right to be Lonely 49
4. Why WHYs and why mes 59
5. Linguistic Inhibition as a Cause of Pregnancy 71
6. "Lying" When You Aren't 85
7. All Mouth and No Trousers: Linguistic Embarrassments 97
8. "But Then I Wouldn't Be Here" 105
9. Your Name Which Isn't Yours 115
Notes 129