Literature

Gormenghast

Gormenghast, a fictional trilogy by Mervyn Peake, provides a literary example of colour representation

About Gormenghast

Gormenghast cover

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

  1. 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.˄