: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess Brooks, Peter creator Brooks, Peter text New Haven : Yale University Press ©1995 monographic eng

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xx, 235 pages ; 24 cm "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 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. / Peter Brooks 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 9780300065534 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi 211126 20211206125150.0