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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

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.
Country USA
Brand Yale University Press
Manufacturer Yale University Press
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EANs 9780300065534
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Country	USA
Brand	Yale University Press
Manufacturer	Yale University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	unknown
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780300065534
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00