
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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Utgivelsesdato:
29.11.1995
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ISBN/Varenr:
9780300065534
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Språk:
, Engelsk
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Forlag:
Yale University Press
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Fagtema:
Kunst
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Litteraturtype:
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Sider:
251
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Høyde:
23.5 cm
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Bredde:
15.7 cm