1st Edition

Talk, Talk, Talk The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation

Edited By S.I. Salamensky Copyright 2001

    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 contributors locate everyday chatter as the basis of a stunning range of artistic and cultural forms: from Antigone's speech-acts to Freud's "talking cure"; from seventeenth-century demon possession to the Marx Brothers' "immigrant talk"; literature, theatre, standup comedy, "ethnic" talk, technologized talk and much, much more.
    Contributors include: Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Marjorie Garber, Sherry Turkle.

    Chat One: Talking the Talk 1. Homi Bhabha and Sander L. Gilman Just Talking: Tete-a-Tete 2. S.I. Salamensky Dangerous Talk: Phenomonology, Performativity, Cultural Crisis Chat Two: The Arts of Conversation 3. Judith Butler and Paul Rabinow Dialogue: Antigone, Speech, Performance, Power 4. Alexander Gelley Idle Talk: Scarcity and Excess in Literary Language 5. Carla Kaplan 'Talk to Me': Talk Ethics and Erotics 6. Deborah R. Geis and S.I. Salamensky The Talking Stage: Drama's Mono-Dialogics 7. Tom Conley The Talkie: Early Cinematic Conversations . Stanley Cavell Nothing Goes Without Saying: The Marx Brothers' Immigrant Talk 9. John K. Limon Spritzing, Skirting: Standup Talk Strategies Chat Three: Culture Klatch 10. Marjorie Garber (Qoutation Marks) 11. Alec Irwin Talking to the Animals 12. Steven Connor Satan and Sybil: Talk, Possession, and Dissociation 13. Nicholas Rand The Talking Cure: Origins of Psychoanalysis14. Margaret Bruzelis What to Say when You Talk to Yourself: The Tower of Psychobabble 15. Jan B. Gordon Hearsay Booked: Fugitive Talk Brought to Justice 16. Avital Ronell Talking on the Telephone 17. Sherry Turkle with S. I. Salamensky Technotalk: E-Mail, the Internet, and Other 'Compversations'

    Biography

    S.I. Salamensky earned her PhD at harvard and is currently Visiting Asssitant Profesor in the Department of English at SUNY Albany.

    "Talk, Talk, Talk belongs in university libraries and larger public libraries." -- Library Journal, Lisa J. Cihlar