Impersonal Passion

by Riley, Denise

• ISBN13: 9780822335122
• ISBN10: 0822335123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-15
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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

Author Biography

Denise Riley is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of East Anglia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(8)
ONE Malediction	9	(20)
TWO "What I Want Back Is What I Was": Consolation's Retrospect	29	(20)
THREE The Right to Be Lonely	49	(10)
FOUR Some WHYS and why mes	59	(12)
FIVE Linguistic Inhibition as a Cause of Pregnancy	71	(14)
SIX "Lying" When You Aren't	85	(12)
SEVEN All Mouth and No Trousers: Linguistic Embarrassments	97	(8)
EIGHT "But Then I Wouldn't Be Here"	105	(10)
NINE Your Name Which Isn't Yours	115	(14)
Notes	129