Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text
- ISBN-10
- 0230288340
- ISBN-13
- 9780230288348
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-04-07
- Publisher
- Springer
- Authors
- J. Gibson, J. Wolfreys
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. 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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