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This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these realist novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama.
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The Melodramatic Imagination, Peter Brooks
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- Released
- 1995
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- Title
- The Melodramatic Imagination
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Brooks
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0300065531
- ISBN13
- 9780300065534
- Description
- This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these realist novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama.