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Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness & Genre in 20th-Century British Fiction

Lauryl Tucker

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Description:What are the sources - and the effects - of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips into parody? 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. By oversupplying the pleasurable senseof 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. Unexpected Pleasures expands on a burgeoning critical interest in genre as aninterpretive tool, and further diversifies the archive and methodology of queer critique. Gathering a surprising group of writers together, it reveals new throughlines between middlebrow and highbrow, and among modernist, mid-century, and contemporary literature. This book will interest scholars ofmodernist and contemporary British literature, as well as readers interested in narrative and queer theory.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness & Genre in 20th-Century British Fiction. To get started finding Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness & Genre in 20th-Century British Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Clemson University Press

Release: 2021

ISBN: 1949979695

Description: What are the sources - and the effects - of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips into parody? 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. By oversupplying the pleasurable senseof 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. Unexpected Pleasures expands on a burgeoning critical interest in genre as aninterpretive tool, and further diversifies the archive and methodology of queer critique. Gathering a surprising group of writers together, it reveals new throughlines between middlebrow and highbrow, and among modernist, mid-century, and contemporary literature. This book will interest scholars ofmodernist and contemporary British literature, as well as readers interested in narrative and queer theory.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness & Genre in 20th-Century British Fiction. To get started finding Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness & Genre in 20th-Century British Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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