Unexpected Pleasures
What are the sources - and the effects - of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? In this book, Lauryl Tucker explores the connection between genre parody and queerness in twentieth-century British fiction.Teasing out the parodic sensibility of writers including V… Celý popis ↓
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Unexpected Pleasures
What are the sources - and the effects - of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? In this book, Lauryl Tucker explores the connection between genre parody and queerness in twentieth-century British fiction.Teasing out the parodic sensibility of writers including Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Sam Selvon, Dorothy Sayers, Stella Gibbons, and Zadie Smith, Unexpected Pleasures offers an innovative reading of works that seem to excessively obey the rules of genre. What happens to that power when conventionality tips into parody?
Unexpected Pleasures expands on a burgeoning critical interest in genre as an interpretive By oversupplying the pleasurable sense of knowledge and the illusion of predictive power that genre confers, these works play with readerly expectation in order to expose and queer a broader set of assumptions about desire, resolution, and futurity.
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