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The Melodramatic Imagination

Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, And The Mode Of Excess

by Peter Brooks
language: english
Publisher: Yale University Press, November of 1995 ‧
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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.

The Melodramatic Imagination

Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, And The Mode Of Excess

by Peter Brooks

Property Description
ISBN: 9780300065534
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date: November of 1995
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 251
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Art > Performing Arts
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780300065534