| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Costerus ; new ser., v. 157
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 157.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Prefatory Note; Introduction; 1 Psychoanalytic Perspectives; 2 Aspects of Stuckness in "Mr Slaughterboard" and Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor; 3 Stuckness, Adherence and Slippage in the Gormenghast Novels; 4 Nonsense, Stuckness and the Abject in Titus Groan; 5 Surviving Stuckness in Titus Groan and Gormenghast; 6 Compulsive Repetition as a Form of Stuckness in Letters from a Lost Uncle; 7 Stuckness, Inflation and Literalized Metaphor in Mr Pye; 8 Topographies of Love and Stuckness in Titus Alone; 9 The Coherence of Titus Alone; 10 Stuck Boy in Darkness. |
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11 Titus Alone and the Production of Moral SludgeConclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Mervyn Peake has been acclaimed as an author of fantasy and as an illustrator, but as yet has received little attention from literary critics. This book is the first to analyse all of Peake's works of fiction, including his two picture story books and novella as well as the Gormenghast series and Mr Pye . Alice Mills pinpoints the fictional quirks that render Mervyn Peake such a memorable fantasy writer, examining his literary works from Jungian, Freudian, Kristevan and post-Jungian perspectives. Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake will be of interest to fantasy lovers and students of fan. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Peake, Mervyn Laurence, 1911-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mills, Alice, 1946- Stuckness in the fiction of Mervyn Peake. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005 9042017082 (OCoLC)63127528 |
| ISBN |
142379091X (electronic book) |
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9781423790914 (electronic book) |
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9789401201629 |
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9401201625 |
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9042017082 (paperback) |
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9789042017085 |
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