Publication

2006-01-15 - Liverpool University Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL8962681M
  • ISBN-139781846310225
  • ISBN-101846310229
  • OCLC Control Number76910926
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  • LibraryThing3048837

Description

A study of major themes and motifs in Peake's works, taking in his prose (novels and short stories), poems, plays, illustrations and illustrated books for children. It finds an aporia at the root of his world: the part that yearns to rejoin the whole it is detached from cannot do so without ceasing to be a part.

Description

Sets the author's subject's well-known fiction in context with the poetry, plays, and book illustrations for which Mervyn Peake is equally lauded. This book traces motifs through Peake's works (islands, animals, and loneliness, for example) and explores in detail Peake's play, 'The Wit to Woo'.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Voice of the Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake's Imagination (Liverpool English Texts and Studies)HardcoverLiverpool University Press2006-01-15

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