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Author_Peter Brooks
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Product details
- ISBN 9780300065534
- Weight: 336g
- Dimensions: 159 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 1995
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
