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

Brand: Yale University Press
Model: 850039001796
ISBN 0300065531
EAN: 9780300065534
Category: Paperback (Creativity & Genius)
Price: $33.00  (Customer Reviews)
Dimension: 0.81 x 9.11 x 6.05 inches
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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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