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2. The Aesthetics of Astonishment

© 2019 Columbia University Press

© 2019 Columbia University Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. Preface IX
  4. 1. The Melodramatic Imagination 1
  5. 2. The Aesthetics of Astonishment 24
  6. 3. The Text of Muteness 56
  7. 4. Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization 81
  8. 5. Balzac: Representation And Signification 110
  9. 6. Henry James And The Melodrama Of Consciousness 153
  10. Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry 198
  11. Notes 207
  12. Index 229
The Melodramatic Imagination
This chapter is in the book The Melodramatic Imagination
https://doi.org/10.7312/broo91978-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. Preface IX
  4. 1. The Melodramatic Imagination 1
  5. 2. The Aesthetics of Astonishment 24
  6. 3. The Text of Muteness 56
  7. 4. Melodrama and Romantic Dramatization 81
  8. 5. Balzac: Representation And Signification 110
  9. 6. Henry James And The Melodrama Of Consciousness 153
  10. Conclusion: Melodrama, A Central Poetry 198
  11. Notes 207
  12. Index 229
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