The voice of the heart : the working of Mervyn Peake's imagination / G. Peter Winnington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winnington, G. Peter.

Series:

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 48.

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors, English.

Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968.

Peake, Mervyn.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-693-5

1-84631-439-9

OCLC:

476210273