The Melodramatic Imagination
| Author | : Peter Brooks |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0300065531 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780300065534 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (534 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Melodramatic Imagination written by Peter Brooks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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