Stuckness in the fiction of Mervyn Peake / / Alice Mills.
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 a...
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Mills, Alice, 1946- Stuckness in the fiction of Mervyn Peake / Alice Mills. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005. 1 online resource (252 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr Costerus ; new ser. , v. 157 Description based upon print version of record. English 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 -- 11 Titus Alone and the Production of Moral Sludge -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 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 fantasy as a genre, as well as those exploring the psychoanalysis of literary texts. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references: (p. [227]-233) and index. Psychoanalysis and literature. Peake, Mervyn Laurence, 1911-1968 Criticism and interpretation. 90-420-1708-2 Costerus ; new ser. , v. 157. |
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