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The Theory and interpretation of narrative series
Theory and interpretation of narrative series. ^A378900
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-142) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002013495 |
| ISBN | 0814209289 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814251080 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814290116 (CD-ROM) |
