The Melodramatic imagination
Brooks, Peter,
The Melodramatic imagination : Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess / Peter Brooks - New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995. - xx, 235 pages ; 24 cm
1. The Melodramatic Imagination --
2. The Aesthetics of Astonishment --
3. The Text of Muteness --
4. Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization --
5. Balzac: Representation and Signification --
6. Henry James and the Melodrama of Consciousness --
Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry.
"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."--BOOK JACKET
9780300065534
International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Literature
History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
Balzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Balzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850
James, Henry, -- 1843-1916
Balzac, Honoré ((de))
Melodrama.
809.33 BRO
The Melodramatic imagination : Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess / Peter Brooks - New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995. - xx, 235 pages ; 24 cm
1. The Melodramatic Imagination --
2. The Aesthetics of Astonishment --
3. The Text of Muteness --
4. Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization --
5. Balzac: Representation and Signification --
6. Henry James and the Melodrama of Consciousness --
Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry.
"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."--BOOK JACKET
9780300065534
International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Literature
History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
Balzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Balzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850
James, Henry, -- 1843-1916
Balzac, Honoré ((de))
Melodrama.
809.33 BRO
