The words of selves : identification, solidarity, irony / Denise Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Denise, 1948-

Series:

Atopia (Stanford, Calif.)

Atopia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Self-perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

In this extended meditation on the language of the self within contemporary social politics, the author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about yourself? She studies why the requirement to be a something-or-other should be so hard to satisfy in a manner that rings true in the ears of its own subject.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

'Who, me?' Self-description's linguistic affect

Linguistic unease

Lyric selves

'The Wounded Fall in the Direction of Their Wound'

Echo, irony, and the political.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804778879 (electronic book)