Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th-century British Fiction

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 t...

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1. Verfasser: Tucker, Lauryl (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2022
Schriftenreihe:Clemson University Press.
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Zusammenfassung: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 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. Unexpected Pleasures expands on a burgeoning critical interest in genre as an interpretive tool, and further diversifies the archive and methodology of queer critique. Gathering a surprising group of w...
Beschreibung:Online resource (282 pages).
ISBN:9781949979695
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