| Description |
xx, 148 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The theory and interpretation of narrative series
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Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: effeminacy, feelings, forms. Effeminacy: a third term for gender studies -- Feelings: how do you really feel? -- Forms: feminist narratology and close reading -- The cry: effeminate sentimentalism. Having a good cry -- Sentimentalism and sexism -- A narratology of good-cry techniques -- Crying over The color purple -- The cringe: marriage plots, effeminacy, and feminist ambivalence. Reading too closely for comfort -- Discomforts of reading Pretty woman -- The thrill and the yawn: antieffeminate structures of feeling in serial forms. Self-conscious serial forms -- Reading the (boring) Victorian serial -- Antieffeminate affect -- E-mail as an antieffeminate form -- Bending gender and the habits of affect -- The climax and the undertow: effeminate intensities in soap opera. Who is the "I" who watches soaps? -- Intensities and long-term viewing -- Effeminate feeling and soap form -- Afterword: the reader's body from the inside out. |
| Subject |
Women and literature.
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Women and literature. |
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Television and women.
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Television and women. |
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Women -- Psychology.
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Women -- Psychology. |
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Emotions.
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Emotions. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
0814251080 paperback alkaline paper |
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0814209289 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0814290116 CD-ROM |
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