Related Authors: Jeffrey Eugenides | The Marriage Plot
Related Topics: books, literary-criticism, literary-theory, narrative, nineteenth-century, novels, plot, postmodernism, reading, semiotics, victorians










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.
Related Authors: Jeffrey Eugenides | The Marriage Plot
Related Topics: books, literary-criticism, literary-theory, narrative, nineteenth-century, novels, plot, postmodernism, reading, semiotics, victorians
© Vibe Quotes 2026 All Rights Reserved.