In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using the rhetoric and excess of melodrama - in particular its secularized conflicts of good and evil, salvation and damnation. The Melodramatic Imagination has become a classic work for understanding theater, fiction, and film.

The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Peter Brooks

Psychology & Counseling

Columbia University Press

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.

The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess

Literature & Fiction

Yale University Press

Mastering the Texas Instruments 99

Micro P

brand new, unread, no remainder marks, tight binding, excellent condition

Romanticism: Vistas, Instances, Continuities.

ROGER SHATTUCK

PAUL DE MAN

harold-bloom

Victor Brombert

M. G. Cooke

Frederick Pottle

W. K. Wimsatt

Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1973

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Profession 2008

Business & Money

David Marshall

W. B. Carnochan

Michael Bernard-Donals

Thomas A. Lovik

Robert F. Barsky

Gillian Lord

Monika Chavez

Glenn S. Levine

Nancy K. Miller

Nicoletta Pireddu

Peter Kerry Powers

Dana Ringuette

Lara Lomicka Anderson

Corinne Crane

Rita Felski

Business Culture

Modern Language Assn of Amer

A mysterious egg appears in the nest of Ma and Pa Robin. The chick that hatches from it is a totally strange bird. He calls himself a "chunkwing" and refuses to eat the worms his parents try to feed him. Yet to grow feathers and learn to fly he has to eat something. He dares to jump out of the robins' nest in a birch tree and embarks on an adventurous search for the one kind of food that will enable him to grow wings. In his search he is helped by an unlikely assortment of friends, including a cat, a priest and a friendly witch and her daughter. Children and adults alike will be captivated by the Peter Brooks' delightful, poetic story and the wonderful, creative illustrations by Sarah Oliver that bring Chungleberry Bunting to life. As a special bonus, every book includes access to an audio version of the story, read by author.

Chungleberry Bunting Learns to Fly

Children's Books

Animals

Advanced Publishing LLC

メロドラマ的想像力

Un Mundo En Otra Parte

Plaza y Janés.

<p>This book considers the design and implementation of metrics in service organizations using industry standard frameworks. It uses the ITIL process structure and many principles from the ITIL and ISO20000 (BS15000) as a basis. It is a general guide to the use of metrics as a mechanism to control and steer IT service organizations. A major reason for covering this topic is that many organizations have found it very difficult to use metrics properly. This book will deal with the causes of the difficulties to implementing metrics and will present workable solutions. It provides a general guide to the design, implementation and use of metrics as a mechanism to control and steer IT service organizations. It also provides specific recommendations for applying metrics across the ITIL, ISO20000 (BS15000) and other processes, discussing the rationale of the recommendations.</p>

Metrics for IT Service Management

Management & Leadership

Van Haren Publishing

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