(Redirected from Shattered (Dean Koontz novel)) Shattered is a 1973 novel by Dean Koontz; it was previously published for Random House under his pseudonym, K.R. Dwyer. The Berkeley edition was published in February 1985, the second printing was in June 1985, and the third printing was in November 1985.
Melodrama(noun) formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
Beginnings of Melodrama. France is attributed for creating the melodrama in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as part of the Romantic literary period. The romantics wanted to express their emotions through art and embraced imagination, individuality, nature as a source of spirituality and intuition.elodrama transitioned with the creation of movies into the silent films, which used music alongside the exaggerated acting. Over time, the melodrama has become a more cookie-cutter form, but still with exaggeration in its heroes, villains and emotion.