Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text - Hardcover

Gibson, J.; Wolfreys, J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033367751X ISBN 13: 9780333677513

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

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. This study playfully, yet rigorously engages with these aspects of literary stylistics and personal and national identity so important in Ackroyd's work. Rejecting the postmodern label previously attached to the author, Gibson and Wolfreys provide a consideration of all Ackroyd's writing to date, from his poetry and critical thought, to his novels and biographies, offering an indispensable account to anyone interested in Ackroyd and the condition of the novel at the end of the twentieth century.

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About the Author

Author Julian Wolfreys: Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students, notably The English Literature Companion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033367751X
• ISBN 13: 9780333677513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 299