{"product_id":"impersonal-passion-language-as-affect-paperback","title":"Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDenise Riley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenise 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 \u003ci\u003eImpersonal Passion\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eImpersonal Passion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenise 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenise Riley is a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of East Anglia. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003e\"Am I That Name?\" Feminism and the Category of \"Women\" in History\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWar in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as many collections of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9.28 x 5.94 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722401583167,"sku":"9780822335122","price":58.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5b9195e86f4ffa32a91ba58386aaf744.webp?v=1765095639","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/impersonal-passion-language-as-affect-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}