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From: The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Fokkema situates Flaubert’s Parrot and several other postmodernist works within the context of Roland Barthes’s essay “The Death of the Author” (1967).] There are brief and...
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From: The New York Review of BooksIt is not surprising that Thomas Chatterton should have attracted the attention of the versatile and prolific young British writer Peter Ackroyd as a subject for fiction. His first novel, The Great Fire of London (1982),...
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From: History Today[(essay date January 2007) In this essay, Evans traces Ackroyd's development as a writer and offers a favorable review of The Fall of Troy, noting the novel's contemporary relevance.] Peter Ackroyd is a man attracted...
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From: Publisher's Weekly[(interview date 25 December 1987) In the following interview, Ackroyd discusses his literary career, his imaginative historical fiction, and the interrelationship between his work as a biographer and novelist.] At 38,...
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From: My Words Echo Thus: Possessing the Past in Peter Ackroyd[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Lewis assesses the critical reactions to Ackroyd's works, examining his oeuvre within the context of postmodernism and highlighting the author's essential contributions to...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date Autumn 1989) In the following review, Firchow offers a positive assessment of Chatterton.] Peter Ackroyd is rapidly becoming the next novelist to watch. One sign of his newly acquired status is the...
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From: Peter Ackroyd[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Onega considers Ackroyd's early novels and biographical studies, demonstrating ways in which his fiction is influenced by the subjects of his biographies.] When choosing his...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date Summer 1992) In the following essay, Finney provides an overview of Ackroyd's theoretical development and postmodern perspective--particularly his view of history, language, and authenticity, as revealed in...
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From: Contemporary Review[(essay date summer 2006) In the following essay, Neagu assesses the metaphysical characteristics of Ackroyd's views of "Englishness," suggesting that his work invites analysis and dialogue not only on the particularity...
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From: The New Republic[(review date 20 March 2000) In the following review, Green offers an extended negative evaluation of The Plato Papers and comments unfavorably on Ackroyd's postmodern aesthetic.] I. What drives anyone to speculate,...
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From: English Studies[(essay date September 1994) In the following essay, Peck provides an overview of the major literary themes and postmodern narrative effects in Ackroyd's fiction, including extended analysis of Hawksmoor, Chatterton, and...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(interview date 23 November 1995) In the following interview, originally conducted on November 23, 1995, Ackroyd discusses his early life, his literary influences, his development from poet to novelist and biographer,...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[Like Oscar Wilde and Thomas Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd] is preoccupied with the double or multiple life. In 1979 he published Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag, the History of an Obsession. The fifth chapter deals with...
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From: The New Republic[(review date 18 January 1993) In the following review, Levenson traces the development of Ackroyd's literary preoccupations and criticizes his conservative nostalgia for English history and cultural identity as...
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From: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date Summer 1999) In the following essay, Koos discusses elements of pastiche and the detective novel genre in Ackroyd's fiction, particularly as found in Chatterton.] Lönnrot thought of himself as a pure...