Peter Ackroyd
the ludic and labyrinthine text
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Contributions
- Wolfreys, Julian, 1958- - Contributor
Publication
2000 - Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke [England], England
Language
English
Word Count
77,750 words, Guess
Page Count
311 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL45705M
- ISBN-100312228686
- OCLC Control Number240930501
- OCLC Control Number42022396
- Library of Congress Control Number99043171
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- LibraryThing5087656
- Goodreads67731
Classifications
- DDC828/.91409
- LCCPR6051.C64 Z66 2000
Description
"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.
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