The Melodramatic Imagination

作者：Peter Brooks

副标题：Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

出版社：Yale University Press

出版年：1995-11

ISBN：9780300065534

行业：其它

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内容简介

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.

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作者简介

Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University. The author of several award-winning books, Brooks currently teaches at Princeton University and lives in Alexandria, Virginia

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