Literature
Gormenghast
Gormenghast, a fictional trilogy by Mervyn Peake, provides a literary example of colour representation
About Gormenghast
Cover of the collected Gormenghast novels.
- Author
- Biography and history
- Book
- Publication history
- Demonstrate ongoing influence and interest
Why did we select this novel?
Intuitively, Peake uses an extended vocabulary related to colour/light/visual impressions.
Place in Gormenghast
Imaginative, aim to create a place that is novel/deep etc.
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Footnotes
Lesser Woods, Imogen Helen Louise. “The Literary Spaces of Mervyn Peake’s the Gormenghast Trilogy Used as a Foundation for Architectural Exploration.” In Writing Spaces, 155–64. Leiden: Brill, 2019. https://doi.org/10/dsfj.˄