Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation

by Shelley Salamensky

Before media, before the Internet...there was talk itself. Talk Talk Talk is an incisive, exhilarating collection of essays by some of the best thinkers -- and talkers -- of our time. These stellar... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415921716
• ISBN13: 9780415921718
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Where Criticism Should be Going

Literary, performance, and cultural criticism, as fields, have largely exhausted themselves. This collection offers not only an invigorating new perspective, but a refreshingly rigorous one. In moving from the written to that borderline between the written and oral so vital today, and in returning to the very structures of writing, language, and performance, the editor and authors guide us to think in whole new ways -- not only about literature, performance, and culture, but as to where criticism should be going.

Fascinating Reading

A fascinating exposition for scholars and lay-readers alike.