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Ordinary pleasures: couples, conversation, and comedy

Name: Ordinary pleasures: couples, conversation, and comedy
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ISBN: 9780814208847

Kay Young

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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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Year:

2001

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press

Language:

English

Pages:

217

ISBN 13:

9780814208847