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THE MELODRAMATIC IMAGINATION
BALZAC, HENRY JAMES, MELODRAMA AND THE MODE OF EXCESS |
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Peter Brooks |
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Paperback |
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£24.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0300065531 |
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9780300065534 |
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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
29 November, 1995 |
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251 |
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This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama. |
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In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using the rhetoric and excess of melodrama - in particular its secularized conflicts of good and evil, salvation and damnation. The Melodramatic Imagination has become a classic work for understanding theater, fiction, and film. |
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Yale University Press |
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