Having a Good Cry

by Warhol, Robyn R.

• ISBN13: 9780814251089
• ISBN10: 0814251080
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface: Six Readers Reading---and Feeling	ix
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction: Effeminacy, Feelings, Forms	1	(28)
Effeminacy: A Third Term for Gender Studies	9	(2)
Feelings: How Do You Really Feel?	11	(12)
Forms: Feminist Narratology and Close Reading	23	(6)
The Cry: Effeminate Sentimentalism	29	(29)
Having a Good Cry	30	(4)
Sentimentalism and Sexism	34	(7)
A Narratology of Good-Cry Techniques	41	(9)
Crying Over The Color Purple	50	(8)
The Cringe: Marriage Plots, Effeminacy, and Feminist Ambivalence	58	(13)
Reading Too Closely for Comfort	60	(4)
Discomforts of Reading Pretty Woman	64	(7)
The Thrill and the Yawn: Antieffeminate Structures of Feeling in Serial Forms	71	(31)
Self-Conscious Serial Forms	73	(3)
Reading the (Boring) Victorian Serial	76	(12)
Antieffeminate Affect	88	(8)
E-mail as an Antieffeminate Form	96	(3)
Bending Gender and the Habits of Affect	99	(3)
The Climax and the Undertow: Effeminate Intensities in Soap Opera	102	(18)
Who Is the ``I'' Who Watches Soaps?	105	(3)
Intensities and Long-Term Viewing	108	(8)
Effeminate Feeling and Soap Form	116	(4)
Afterword: The Reader's Body from the Inside Out	120	(5)
Notes	125	(10)
Bibliography	135	(8)
Index	143