The Melodramatic Imagination
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The Melodramatic Imagination by Peter Brooks
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.
Brooks, Peter: - Peter Brooks has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel, French and English. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot, Body Work, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling and The Emperor's Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University, he currently teaches at Princeton University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300065534 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300065531 |
| Titel | The Melodramatic Imagination |
| Autor | Peter Brooks |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Yale University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1995-11-29 |
| Seitenanzahl | 251 |
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