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Author Winnington, G. Peter.

Title The voice of the heart : the working of Mervyn Peake's imagination / G. Peter Winnington
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations
Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; 48
Liverpool English texts and studies ; 48.
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
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Subject Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968 fast
Peake, Mervyn -- Motiv. swd
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Vertelkunst.
Motiv -- Peake, Mervyn.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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