Mon premier blog

The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess Professor Peter Brooks
Publisher:

The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess by Professor Peter Brooks. Peter Brooks, The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976). The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess. The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, and the Mode of Excess. Reference is to: Brooks, Peter. The Feminist, The Housewife, and the Soap Opera. Peter Brooks has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel, French and English. In the 1995 preface to his important and continuously cited study of melodrama, The Melodramatic Imagination (1976), Peter Brooks articulates the capabilities of melodrama: “the melodramatic mode no longer needs to be approached in the mode of apology. We know about its limitations, its easier effects, and its more . Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama and the Mode of Excess. The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess : with a new preface Peter Brooks 1995 Yale University Press 235 0300065531,9780300065534.