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The Melodramatic Imagination

- Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780300065534
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 251
  • Udgivet:
  • 29. November 1995
  • Størrelse:
  • 157x235x18 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 384 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..

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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.

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