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

Brooks, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300065531 ISBN 13: 9780300065534

Verlag: Yale University Press, 1995

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Book by Brooks Professor Peter

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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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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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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0300065531
• ISBN 13: 9780300065534
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 251