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The Melodramatic Imagination : Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess /
Examines the mode of heightened dramatization inextricably bound up with the modern novel's effort to signify in an attempt to define and sharpen the term 'melodramatic' as it applies to the classic French melodrama as it came to be established after the Revolution in the 19th century...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[1984]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Melodramatic Imagination
- 2. The Aesthetics of Astonishment
- 3. The Text of Muteness
- 4. Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization
- 5. Balzac: Representation And Signification
- 6. Henry James And The Melodrama Of Consciousness
- Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry
- Notes
- Index