Miracle Enough
Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2014
266 pages
978-1-4438-6733-7 (ISBN)
Description
To mark the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth, the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy (University of Chichester) organized an international conference in July 2011 entitled ",Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition.",Papers were presented by scholars, artists, and writers from all over the world, and here we have a selection of them. No other comparable collection of essays on Peake has ever been published.The contributors take a wide variety of approaches to Peake's work - not just the Gormenghast trilogy but also his books for children, his poetry, and his art. They compare Peake with other writers, explore the world of Gormenghast, and examine his characters and his poetical prose style. Two essays approach the graphic side of Peake's oeuvre: the drawings he made in the manuscripts of the Titus books, and his illustrations for Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm.The book contains 60 illustrations and two tables.
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Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF TABLES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PEAKE AND ALICE (AND ARRIETTY)
- SHAPING IN TITUS GROAN
- THE KEDA MYSTERY
- BUT ARE THEY FANTASY?
- PEAKE AND THE FUZZY SET OF FANTASY
- ALGORITHM OF DISENCHANTMENT
- (IN)VISIBLE BLACK HOLES
- THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
- PEAKE AND VULNERABILITY
- THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE
- MERVYN PEAKE, THE POET OF GORMENGHAST
- ECCENTRICITY IN MERVYN PEAKE'S WORK
- EXCHANGING CERTAINTY FOR UNCERTAINTY
- THE IMAGINATION AT WORK
- THE FLEETING LINE
- A TUTORIAL WITH MERVYN PEAKE
- ADAPTING TITUS GROAN
- CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS BOOK
- INDEX
