Research Catalog

Title

Peter Ackroyd : the ludic and labyrinthine text / Jeremy Gibson and Julian Wolfreys ; foreword by Peter Nichols.

Author

Gibson, Jeremy Sumner Wycherley.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-

Description

xi, 311 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "Peter Ackroyd: the Ludic and Labyrinthine Text offers the reader the first major critical study in English of one of Britain's most inventive, playful and significant writers of the twentieth century.
• Attending to the country of Ackroyd's rhetorical strategies, narratives structures and his self-conscious borrowing from other writers, this study playfully yet rigorously engages with questions of literary stylistics, pastiche and parody, humour and camp sensibility, memory and temporality, personal and national identity and, finally, the importance of London to Ackroyd's writing.".
• "This will be an indispensable study for anyone interested in Ackroyd, in liteary stylistics, and in the condition of the novel at the end of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- > Criticism and interpretation
• Experimental fiction, English > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-303) and indexes.

Contents

Foreword / Peter Nicholls -- Introduction: the 'ludicrous' Text of Peter Ackroyd -- 1. 'A tiny light /seen in the mind's eye as a phoneme': the Poetry of Peter Ackroyd -- 2. 'A bit of a game': the styles of Peter Ackroyd I: The Great Fire of London, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, Hawksmoor -- 3. 'A bit of a game': the Styles of Peter Ackroyd II: Chatterton, English Music, First Light, Milton in American -- 4. 'Endless Variety': Writing the City in the Biographies, The House of Doctor Dee, and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem -- 5. Three Interviews with Peter Ackroyd.

ISBN

0312228686 (cloth)

LCCN

99043171

OCLC

• 240930501
• ocn240930501
• SCSB-3866801

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries