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Stuckness in the fiction of Mervyn Peake /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mills, Alice, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Colección:Costerus ; new ser., v. 157.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 SludgeConclusion; Bibliography; Index.