TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks, Peter,
AU  - Brooks, Peter,
TI  - The Melodramatic imagination : : Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess
SN  - 9780300065534
U1  - 809.33 BRO 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New Haven
PB  -  : Yale University Press, 
KW  - Literature
KW  - History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
KW  - Balzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Balzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850
KW  - James, Henry, -- 1843-1916
KW  - Balzac, Honoré ((de))
KW  - Melodrama
N1  - 	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
N2  - 	
"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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