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.

This remarkable book has endured as a true masterpiece of mathematical exposition. There are few mathematics books that are still so widely read and continue to have so much to offer--after more than half a century! The book is overflowing with mathematical ideas, which are always explained clearly and elegantly, and above all, with penetrating insight. It is a joy to read, bot...(展开全部)

杰佛瑞‧芮夫（Jeffrey Raff）于贝慈学院（Bates College）获得文学士学位、新社会研究学院（New School of Social Research）获得心理学硕士学位、联盟研究学院（Union Graduate School）获得心理学博士学位。一九七二年至一九七六年至苏黎世荣格学院（C.G. Jung Institute）研究，并获得荣格心理分析师证书。着有数篇论文，以荣格观点探讨萨满教（shamanism）与炼金术，一九七六年起并在科罗拉多州利托顿（Littleton）开设私人荣格心理分析诊所。他同时也在全美各地讲座、工作室等教授荣格心理学及炼金术。 2002年，他和Linda Bonnington Vocatura共同出版了《治疗受伤的上帝》（Healing the Wounded God），对主动想象及“与盟友合作”两...(展开全部)

Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences cons...(展开全部)

In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have moved residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country now known as "a society of acquaintances." There has been a resulting breakdown of civility and trust in contemporary China, and the new market economy doesn't offer any soluti...(展开全部)

Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and The Phantom of the Opera is his tour de force, as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession, The Phantom of the Opera has thrilled and entertained audiences in adaptations throughout the century. This new translation—the first completely mo...(展开全部)

The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching.Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to unde...(展开全部)

The debut novel of one of China's rising young literary talents--a gem of a book that takes a piercing look into the world of Chinese opera and its female stars In a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching.Twenty years later, a rich cigarette-factory boss offers to unde...(展开全部)