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082			_a809.33 BRO
100			_aBrooks, Peter,
245			_aThe Melodramatic imagination _b: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess _c/ Peter Brooks
260			_aNew Haven _b : Yale University Press, _c©1995.
300			_axx, 235 pages _c; 24 cm
365			_b2292
505			_a 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.
520			_a "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
650			_aLiterature
650			_aHistory, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
650			_aBalzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.
650			_aBalzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850
650			_aJames, Henry, -- 1843-1916
650			_aBalzac, Honoré ((de))
650			_aMelodrama.
700			_aBrooks, Peter,
942			_cBOOK