The Language, Discourse, Society Reader

by Denise Riley

Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Heath, C.MacCabe & D.Riley James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word; C.MacCabe On Law and Ideology; P.Q.Hirst Language, Semiotics and Ideology; M.Pêcheux The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction; J.Rose The Making of the Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry; D.Trotter Understanding A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett; P.Gidal Signifying The Semiotics of Zero; B.Rotman The Desire to The Women's Film of the 1940s; M.A.Doane 'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History; D.Riley Not A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory; R.Tallis The Emergence of Social Rimbaud and the Paris Commune; K.Ross Improvement and Constructing the Myth of the Highlands; P.Womack Poetry and Narrative in Performance; D.Oliver Visual and Other Pleasures; L.Mulvey The American Evasion of A Genealogy of Pragmatism; C.West Poets on Britain, 1970-1991; D.Riley The Crisis in Historical Materialism; S.Aronowitz The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge; J.Barrell On Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law; I.Hunter, D.Saunders & D.Williamson De-Hegemonizing Language Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes about 'English'; A.Parakrama Resources of Prospects for a 'Post-Analytic' Philosophy; C.Norris The Destructive British Psychoanalysis and Modernisms; L.Stonebridge Death of The Legacy of Molecular Biology; S.Shostak Pragmatics as Interpretation; J-J.Lecercle Cities, Words and From Poe to Scorsese; P.Lombardo Series Bibliography

436 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Denise Riley (born 1948) is an English poet and philosopher who began to be published in the 1970s.

Her poetry is remarkable for its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, "identity", and philosophy of language, are recognised as an important contribution to feminism and contemporary philosophy. She was Professor of Literature with Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and is currently A.D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University. She was formerly Writer in Residence at Tate Gallery London, and has held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of London. Among her poetry publications is Penguin Modern Poets 10, with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair (1996). She lives in London.