Reading a novel reading semiotic theory like jogging empty-handed jogg — Jeffrey Eugenides, Marriage Plot

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Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.

Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

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Related Topics: books, literary-criticism, literary-theory, narrative, nineteenth-century, novels, plot, postmodernism, reading, semiotics, victorians

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