Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations |
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Liverpool English texts and studies ; 48 |
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Liverpool English texts and studies ; 48.
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Contents |
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Abbreviated references and editions quoted; Works cited; Introduction; 1: Heart; 2: Solitude; 3: Islands; 4: Animals; 5: Love; 6: Birds; 7: Identity; 8: Evil; 9: Perspective; 10: Voice; 11: Mr Pye; 12: Theatre; Index |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xii-xiii) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968 fast |
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Peake, Mervyn -- Motiv. swd |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Vertelkunst.
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Motiv -- Peake, Mervyn.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781846314391 |
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1846314399 |
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9781781386934 |
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1781386935 |
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1846310229 |
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9781846310225 |
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