{"product_id":"impersonal-passion-language-as-affect-9780822335122","title":"Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect","description":"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 \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.\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Denise Riley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 5.94w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822335122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram PTR\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2005 pg. 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198566871155,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f7865fb4-e776-4a1a-8044-fc1d8fcd6b46.jpg?v=1656078866","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/impersonal-passion-language-as-affect-9780822335122","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}