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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.

Title Ordinary pleasures / Kay Young.
Additional Titles Ordinary pleasures
Publisher Columbus : Ohio State University Press
Creation Date 2018
Content Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- INTIMACY -- Conversation Makes the Couple -- Word-Work: Couples and Their Plots -- Word-Play: Couples and Stories on Holiday -- Conclusions -- HAPPINESS -- Romantic Comedy and the Male/Female Comedy Team -- All Happy Families Are Not Alike -- Lucy and Ricky/Nichols and May -- What It Means to Be Nick and Nora -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Extent 1 online resource (x, 217 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997012369280505171
MARC RECORDS
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