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Peter Ackroyd | | Birth Date: |
October 5, 1949 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Peter Ackroyd
6,662 words, approx. 22 pages
 Peter Ackroyd's novels and biographies have consistently hovered on the boundaries of conventional literary form. While his historical novels characteristically assume the disguise of an imaginary journal or confessional narrative presented as a... summary from source:
Biography of Peter Ackroyd
6,048 words, approx. 20 pages
"Biographers are simply novelists without imagination": in one of the fanciful interchapters of his biography Dickens (1990), Peter Ackroyd imagines hearing this sentiment from Charles Dickens. The statement illuminates the challenge biography holds... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Peter Ackroyd Information
1,180 words, approx. 4 pages
 Peter Ackroyd (born October 5 1949, London) is an English author. Ackroyd has always shown a great interest in the city of London and one of his most recent works, London: The Biography, is an extensive and thorough discussion of London through the...
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 The Boston Globe Peter Ackroyd Weaves A Rich Tapestry
01/27/1988: 614 words, approx. 2 pages CHATTERTON, by Peter Ackroyd. Grove Press, 234 pp., $17.95 Peter Ackroyd's novel centering on Thomas Chatterton, the adolescent poet and forger, concerns, in a sense, death and resurrection -- Chatterton lives again through Henry Wallis' 1856 portrait in which George Meredith modeled as the... summary from source:
The Daily Mail (London, England) WHAT BOOK? Peter Ackroyd.
10/04/2002: 386 words, approx. 1 pages . . .ARE YOU READING NOW? AT THE moment I am reading a life of William Shakespeare, Ungentle Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones (Arden, pound sterling7.99). I am planning to write my own biography next year. He is also one of the figures... summary from source:
 The New York Observer And They\'d5re at the Gate: Didion, Coetzee, Gaitskill in the Running
9/25/2005: 524 words, approx. 2 pagesIf book publishing is a horse race, this fall we’re being treated to a Nobel trifecta. In September, we have Slow Man (Viking), a bag of tricks from the newest laureate, J.M. Coetzee (b. 1940); in October, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Knopf), a typically... summary from source:
The New York Observer And They're at the Gate: Didion, Coetzee, Gaitskill in the Running
9/25/2005: 524 words, approx. 2 pagesIf book publishing is a horse race, this fall we’re being treated to a Nobel trifecta. In September, we have Slow Man (Viking), a bag of tricks from the newest laureate, J.M. Coetzee (b. 1940); in October, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Knopf), a typically...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Brian Finney
9,344 words, approx. 31 pages
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 his biographical works and fiction, notably Chatterton.
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Critical Review by Peter Green
6,082 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following review, Green offers an extended negative evaluation of The Plato Papers and comments unfavorably on Ackroyd's postmodern aesthetic.
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Critical Essay by John Peck
5,965 words, approx. 20 pages
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 First Light. Peck offers an unfavorable assessment of English Music and contends that First Light represents Ackroyd's most challenging novel to date.
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