ORDINARY PLEASURES

<i>Ordinary Pleasures</i> offers a new theory of narrative in its uncovering of how conversations and comic exchanges 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 <i>Casablanca<i> and<i> I Love Lucy</i>) 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.