The Melodramatic Imagination
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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.
| Autor: | Brooks, Peter |
| Nakladatel: | Yale University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780300065534 |
| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Jazyk : | Angličtina |
| Vazba: | Paperback / softback |
| Počet stran: | 251 |
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