The Melodramatic Imagination : Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess / Peter Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the mode of heightened dramatization inextricably bound up with the modern novel's effort to signify in an attempt to define and sharpen the term 'melodramatic' as it applies to the classic French melodrama as it came to be established after the Revolution in the 19th century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

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

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88641-1

OCLC:

1100451882