Echo, Irony, and Repetition in the Writings of Denise Riley

Denise Riley is a poet and philosopher, whose extensive considerations of the nature of affect, language, interpellation, and the subject have received significant critical attention, and whose poetry has a small but committed audience. This article reads her poetry against the claims of her theory, to argue that Riley’s thesis that language is “impersonal” is challenged by the lyric dialogues she stages. It pays particular attention to the relationship between repetition and the mastery of historic or linguistic hurt, the problems of self-scrutiny as a Stoic or narcissistic practice, the overcoming of linguistic or emotional petrification through irony, and the need for pragmatic solidarities not based on individual identity

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Echo (communications protocol · Identity (music · Irony · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Repetition (rhetorical device · Scrutiny · Subject (documents · Theology · Utterance · Computer Science · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology · Philosophy

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