| The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess Revised Edition Contributor(s): Brooks, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300065531 ISBN-13: 9780300065534 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $32.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1995 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Psychology | Creative Ability |
| Dewey: 809.33 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.05" W x 9.11" (0.99 lbs) 251 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |