The Melodramatic Imagination
by Peter Brooks
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ISBN13:Â 9780300065534
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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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780300065534 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0300065531 |
| Weight | 0.85Â Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.11 x 6.05 x 0.81 In |
| List Price | $33.00 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 251 pages |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Published On | 1995-11-29 |
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