Impersonal Passion

Impersonal Passion
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9780822386780
ISBN-13 : 082238678X
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Book Synopsis Impersonal Passion by : Denise Riley

Download or read book Impersonal Passion written by Denise Riley and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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