01893nam a22002897a 4500 58619 58619 20211206125150.0 211126b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780300065534 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi ;117038 :15/11/2021 809.33 BRO 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 2292 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 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. Brooks, Peter, BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2021-11-26 International Book Distributors 2292.00 0 809.33 BRO 28122 2023-10-20 00:00:00 2021-11-26 BOOK