The Melodramatic imagination : Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess / Peter Brooks
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TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995.Description: xx, 235 pages ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780300065534
- 809.33 BRO
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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
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