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Titus Groan

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-08-12
ISBN 10 : 9781409007074
Pages : 515 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (7 downloads)

Download Titus Groan PDF Format Full Free by Mervyn Peake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant first novel in the legendary gothic fantasy trilogy As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone. As the ruling family grows, deep in the cavernous kitchens the ambitious scullery boy Steerpike plots his ascent, determined to subvert the archaic order and bring revolution to the ancient stasis of Gormenghast.

Voices for the Future

Author : Thomas D. Clareson
Publisher : Popular Press
Release Date : 1984
ISBN 10 : 0879722525
Pages : 220 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (879 downloads)

Download Voices for the Future PDF Format Full Free by Thomas D. Clareson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss the fiction of Jack Williamson, Olaf Stapledon, Clifford D. Simak, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, and others

Modern Fantasy

Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-04-16
ISBN 10 : 9781532691843
Pages : 318 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (691 downloads)

Download Modern Fantasy PDF Format Full Free by Colin N. Manlove and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a decade from 1965 which had seen the growth in Britain and America of an enormous interest in fantasy literature, and a rise in its academic repute from cold to lukewarm, a serious study of the subject seemed long overdue. In this first critical book in its time on modern English fantasy, Colin Manlove surveys a representative group of modern fantasies—in the Victorian period in the children's scientific and Christian fantasy The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley and the mystical fantasy of the Scottish writer George MacDonald; and from the twentieth century the interplanetary romances of C. S. Lewis, the post-war fantasy of rebellious youth in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books, and the quest to avert apocalypse in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The aim with all these works is to show the peculiar literary experiences they offer and to assess their strengths and limitations in relation to wider English literature. In the introduction to his book, Manlove gives a definition of fantasy, marking off the genre from its near neighbors science fiction and “Gothic” or horror story, and distinguishing between fantasies that are serious works of imagination and those that are fanciful or escapist. Each chapter that follows is primarily a literary analysis set in a context of the writer's life, thought, and other works. As the book proceeds, there begins to emerge a picture of the originality and merit of the writers, but at the same time the sense of a division in the purpose of each writer, whereby their works fail to abide by their own laws. In the conclusion to this book Manlove draws the different types of division found into one and argues that the problem is one that is endemic to the writing of modern fantasy.

Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake

Author : Alice Mills
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2005-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9789401201629
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (21 downloads)

Download Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake PDF Format Full Free by Alice Mills and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mervyn Peake has been acclaimed as an author of fantasy and as an illustrator, but as yet has received little attention from literary critics. This book is the first to analyse all of Peake’s works of fiction, including his two picture story books and novella as well as the Gormenghast series and Mr Pye. Alice Mills pinpoints the fictional quirks that render Mervyn Peake such a memorable fantasy writer, examining his literary works from Jungian, Freudian, Kristevan and post-Jungian perspectives. Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake will be of interest to fantasy lovers and students of fantasy as a genre, as well as those exploring the psychoanalysis of literary texts.

The Voice of the Heart

Author : G. Peter Winnington
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9781846310225
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (31 downloads)

Download The Voice of the Heart PDF Format Full Free by G. Peter Winnington and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profoundly creative works of Mervyn Peake have fascinated readers for decades. His Gormenghast sequence of novels, recently serialized to great acclaim by the BBC, stands as one of the great imaginative accomplishments of twentieth-century literature. In The Voice of the Heart, G. Peter Winnington, the world’s foremost expert on Peake, explores his subject’s well-known fiction alongside the poetry, plays, and illustrations for which Peake is equally lauded. He traces recurrent motifs through Peake’s works and examines in detail his long-neglected play, The Wit to Woo. Through close readings of all these elements of Peake’s oeuvre, Winnington ultimately offers unparalleled insight into one of British literature’s most vibrant imaginations.

The Impulse of Fantasy Literature

Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-06-30
ISBN 10 : 9781532677168
Pages : 190 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (677 downloads)

Download The Impulse of Fantasy Literature PDF Format Full Free by Colin N. Manlove and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew out of the author's wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy is ultimately concerned to heighten and praise being, whether that being is God's creation, the world, or the creations of the fantasy writer themselves. This interest can take the form of direct eulogy or of more unconscious fascination. It is seen in fantasy's conservatism and its frequently elegiac mode, and is demonstrated through its formal characteristics such as circular structure and the use of juxtaposition to heighten individuality. It is more overtly present in modern than in pre-1800 fantasy, partly because modern fantasy developed as a Romantic reaction against technology and everything that reduced direct contact between people and the environment. These aspects of fantasy are illustrated from detailed discussion of the tales of Grimm, Walter de la Mare's Told Again, W. M. Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, Charles Williams's prose fantasies, Ursula le Guin's Earthsea trilogy, E. Nesbit's magic books, George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith, T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels, William Morris's late romances, Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter, E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn. Together these authors and works provide a cross-section of what is a fundamentally panegyric genre demonstrating its variety, its strengths, and its limitations.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-01-10
ISBN 10 : 9781844037193
Pages : 960 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (37 downloads)

Download 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die PDF Format Full Free by Peter Boxall and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.

Rhetorics of Fantasy

Author : Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
ISBN 10 : 9780819573919
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (573 downloads)

Download Rhetorics of Fantasy PDF Format Full Free by Farah Mendlesohn and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four categories of fantasy—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author’s stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty books in detail, ranging from nineteenth-century fantasy and horror to extensive coverage of some of the best books in the contemporary field. Offering a wide-ranging discussion and penetrating comparative analysis, Rhetorics of Fantasy will excite fans and provide a wealth of material for scholarly and classroom discussion. Includes discussion of works by over 100 authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Peter Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Crowley, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, China Miéville, Suniti Namjoshi, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tad Williams

Miracle Enough

Author : William Gray
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-18
ISBN 10 : 9781443867337
Pages : 250 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (867 downloads)

Download Miracle Enough PDF Format Full Free by William Gray and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 - ...

Fairy Tales of London

Author : Hadas Elber-Aviram
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-28
ISBN 10 : 9781350110694
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (11 downloads)

Download Fairy Tales of London PDF Format Full Free by Hadas Elber-Aviram and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville.

Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781438119069
Pages : 481 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (119 downloads)

Download Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire PDF Format Full Free by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the world's greatest literature about empires and imperialism, including more than 200 entries on writers, classic works, themes, and concepts.

Under a Canvas Sky

Author : Clare Peake
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-05-26
ISBN 10 : 9781849017473
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (17 downloads)

Download Under a Canvas Sky PDF Format Full Free by Clare Peake and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clare Peake, daughter of the celebrated writer and artist Mervyn Peake, tells the story of her parents' romance and her own happy and bohemian childhood. Mervyn Peake was born in China, the son of medical missionaries, and the juxtaposition of his exotic surroundings and the very English manners at home had a lasting effect on him. Reading Treasure Island until he could recite it by heart and waiting for comics to arrive from England had him living a childhood bursting with imagery. He returned to England to study at the Royal Academy School and was then offered a teaching post at Westminster School of Art. There his charismatic and un-worldly presence made a huge impact: none more so than on Maeve Gilmore, a seventeen-year-old sculpture student. The couple fell passionately in love but Maeve's parents were determined their daughter would not marry a penniless artist and sent her away to forget him. She didn't and, refusing to be parted ever again, they married when Maeve was nineteen and Mervyn twenty-six. Mervyn Peake developed Parkinson's disease aged forty-five. His decline was rapid and he spent time in and out of mental hospitals until his death at fifty-seven, the diagnosis never fully understood. Clare Peake writes movingly of the impact on the family and her mother's determination to continue giving her children the happiness she felt all children deserved.

Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel

Author : Sara Martin Alegre
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-20
ISBN 10 : 9781000763317
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (763 downloads)

Download Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel PDF Format Full Free by Sara Martin Alegre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort sits at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, arguing that the villain, in many works of contemporary British fiction, is a patriarchal figure that embodies an excess of patriarchal power that needs to be controlled by the hero. The villains' stories are enactments of empowerment fantasies and cautionary tales against abusing patriarchal power. While providing readers with in-depth studies of some of the most popular contemporary fiction villans, Sara Martin Algre shows how current representations of the villain are not only measured against previous literary characters but also against the real-life figure of the archvillain Adolf Hitler.

Children's Fiction 1900–1950

Author : John Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-23
ISBN 10 : 9780429807534
Pages : 228 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (87 downloads)

Download Children's Fiction 1900–1950 PDF Format Full Free by John Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume explores how the genre of school stories had become firmly established by the turn of the twentieth century, having been built on the foundations laid by writers such as Thomas Hughes and F.W. Farrar. Stories for girls were also taking on a more exciting complexion, inspired by the ‘Katy’ books of Susan Coolidge. The first five decades of the twentieth century saw further developments in children’s fiction. In this comprehensive volume, John and Jonathan Cooper examine each decade in turn, with alphabetically arranged entries on popular children’s writers that published works in English during that period. 206 different authors are covered, many from the United States and Canada. Each entry provides information on the author’s pseudonyms, date of birth, nationality, titles of works, place and date of publication and the publisher’s name. The artist responsible for a book’s illustrations is also identified where possible. With over 200 illustrations of cover designs and dustwrappers, many of which are now rare and have never before been published, this book will delight collectors, dealers, scholars, librarians, parents and all those who simply enjoy reading children’s fiction.

Global Perspectives on Villains and Villainy Today

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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2020-05-18
ISBN 10 : 9781848880528
Pages : 266 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (88 downloads)

Download Global Perspectives on Villains and Villainy Today PDF Format Full Free by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This e-book presents the findings of the 2nd global, interdisciplinary conference on Villains and Villainy, which was held at Oriel College, Oxford in September 2010 as part of the research network Inter-Disciplinary.Net.

The Literature of Terror: Volume 2

Author : David Punter
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-14
ISBN 10 : 9781317888017
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (888 downloads)

Download The Literature of Terror: Volume 2 PDF Format Full Free by David Punter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting with the 'decadent' gothic writing of Oscar Wilde and continuing through the twentieth century.

A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2021-06-24
ISBN 10 : 9781000287646
Pages : 330 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (287 downloads)

Download A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English PDF Format Full Free by Harry Blamires and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on individual writers from countries including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the UK. The book contains substantial articles relating to major novelists, poets, and dramatists of the age, as well as a wealth of information on the work of lesser-known writers and the part they have played in cultural history. It focuses in detail on the character and quality of the literature itself, highlighting what is distinctive in the work of the writers being discussed and providing key biographical and contextual details. A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is ideal for those with an interest in the twentieth century literary scene and the history of literature more broadly.