Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text

by Julian Wolfreys, Jeremy Gibson, Jeremy Gibson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033367751X
• ISBN13: 9780333677513
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"