The voice of the heart : the working of Mervyn Peake's imagination /
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| Author / Creator: | Winnington, G. Peter. |
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| Imprint: | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | xiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Liverpool English texts and studies ; 48 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6232155 |
| Summary: | The works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for sixty years. His Gormenghast sequence of novels - recently serialized to great acclaim by the BBC - stands as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of twentieth-century literature. In The Voice of the Heart, G. Peter Winnington, the world's foremost expert on Peake, sets his subject's fiction in context with the poetry, plays and book illustrations which are less well known. He traces recurrent motifs through Peake's works (islands, animals, and loneliness, for example) and explores in detail Peake's long-neglected play, The Wit to Woo. Through close readings of all these elements of Peake's oeuvre, Winnington is ultimately able to offer unparalleled insight into one of British literature's most vibrant imaginations. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [xii]-xiii) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1846310229 9781846310225 184631030X 9781846310300 |
