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Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy

Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy

Paperback

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0814250823
ISBN13: 9780814250822
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Feb 7 2012
Pages: 217
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
Ordinary Pleasures offers a new theory of narrative in its uncovering of how conversations and comic exchanges between lovers in stories create an intimacy and happiness of the everyday. Drawing on a diverse body of theory (from sociolinguistics to philosophy to literary criticism) and reading an unexpectedly eclectic group of texts (works by Shakespeare and Tolstoy appear beside Casablanca and I Love Lucy), Kay Young explores how narrative couples play together, struggle together, and return to one another to experience what it means to be in a relationship over time.

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