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Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy by Kay Young β€” book cover

Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy

by Kay Young
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Synopsis

This text seeks to offer a new theory of narrative in its uncovering of how conversations and comic interchanges 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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Book Details

Published
December 1, 2001
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Pages
232
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780814208847

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