Title: The Voice of the Heart
Subtitle: the working of Mervyn Peake's imagination
First published: 2006
Description: A study of major themes and motifs in Peake's works, taking in his prose (novels and short stories), poems, plays, illustrations and illustrated books for children. It finds an aporia at the root of his world: the part that yearns to rejoin the whole it is detached from cannot do so without ceasing to be a part.
Subjects: Analysis and interpretation, English literature, history and criticism
Places: Sark
People: Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-1968)
Time periods: The Titus books, aka the Gormenghast novels.