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

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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Tags: melodrama, James, Henry, Balzac, fiction
Rails And Ties (2007) Movie Drama - Melodrama
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Rails And Ties (2007) Movie Drama - MelodramaWhen life comes apart, love puts it back together.

The story itself is unusual and that made it a somewhat novel experience. The acting is amazing - esp. by Marcia Gay Harden (the ill wife). It's definitely a show worth watching if you're looking for a well-done drama.

Parental guidance: recommended age 13+

 
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Tags: Rails, Movie, Drama, Melodrama, recommended