The Melodramatic Imagination – Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama & the Mode of Excess : Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
by
Peter Brooks
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0300065531
ISBN-13
9780300065534
Publisher
Yale University Press
Imprint
Yale University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 29th, 1995
Print length
251 Pages
Weight
384 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.70 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
United States of America, USAEnglishFrenchTheatre studiesTheatre studiesLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: plays & playwrightsLiterary studies: plays and playwrightsLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersLiterary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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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.
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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