Stuckness in the fiction of Mervyn Peake / Alice Mills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Alice, 1946-

Series:

Costerus ; new ser. , v. 157.

Costerus ; new ser. , v. 157

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Peake, Mervyn, 1911-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Peake, Mervyn.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

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 fantasy as a genre, as well as those exploring the psychoanalysis of literary texts.

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

11 Titus Alone and the Production of Moral Sludge

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references: (p. [227]-233) and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0162-5

1-4237-9091-X

OCLC:

714567296

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401201629 DOI