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.
| ISBN: | 9780822335009 |
| Publication date: | 15th May 2005 |
| Author: | Denise Riley |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 142 pages |
| Genres: |
Linguistics |
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.
Impersonal Passion features in the following genres: Linguistics
Impersonal Passion is available in Hardback, Paperback
Impersonal Passion was written by Denise Riley and published by Duke University Press
Impersonal Passion has 142 pages