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Article: Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2003
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Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text. By JEREMY GIBSON and JULIAN WOLFREYS, with a foreword by PETER NICHOLLS. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2000. xi+311 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-67751-x.
The circumstances which resulted in the production of this comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the work of Peter Ackroyd have a grim relevance to its subject. Ackroyd has been telling London stories of lost and reauthored manuscripts, textual resurrections, and literary afterlives for years, and here, Julian Wolfreys has taken up the outlines of a critical work on Ackroyd left by Jeremy Gibson after the latter's tragic death at the age of 29 ...