The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess - Peter Brooks - Books - Yale University Press - 9780300065534 - November 29, 1995
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Peter Brooks
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess New edition

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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.

251 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 29, 1995
ISBN13 9780300065534
Publishers Yale University Press
Pages 251
Dimensions 157 × 235 × 18 mm   ·   384 g
Language English  

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