The Melodramatic Imagination

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1984-12-31bookColumbia University Press eBooks670 citationsclosed

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French Literature and Poetry French Literature and Criticism French Literature and Critical Theory

Abstract

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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