Author: Laurence Steven
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889209596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Patrick White is a man divided: one part of him strives for permanence, surety, the ideal, while knowing the contingent, temporal realm he inhabits must inevitably undermine such striving. The desire, and the knowledge of its futility, leads him into a misanthropic devaluation of human creative possibility and, complementarily, into the arbitrary use of imposed symbolic resolutions directed to an elect who can ""see"". It has been this part of White, largely, that criticism has been industrious in explicating, if not in quite the terms I have used above. But there is another part of White whic.
Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction
Author: Laurence Steven
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889209596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Patrick White is a man divided: one part of him strives for permanence, surety, the ideal, while knowing the contingent, temporal realm he inhabits must inevitably undermine such striving. The desire, and the knowledge of its futility, leads him into a misanthropic devaluation of human creative possibility and, complementarily, into the arbitrary use of imposed symbolic resolutions directed to an elect who can ""see"". It has been this part of White, largely, that criticism has been industrious in explicating, if not in quite the terms I have used above. But there is another part of White whic.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889209596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Patrick White is a man divided: one part of him strives for permanence, surety, the ideal, while knowing the contingent, temporal realm he inhabits must inevitably undermine such striving. The desire, and the knowledge of its futility, leads him into a misanthropic devaluation of human creative possibility and, complementarily, into the arbitrary use of imposed symbolic resolutions directed to an elect who can ""see"". It has been this part of White, largely, that criticism has been industrious in explicating, if not in quite the terms I have used above. But there is another part of White whic.
Otherness in the Novels of Patrick White
Author: Alma Budurlean
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783631589090
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The central argument of the thesis, the representation and reception of otherness, is followed throughout White's novels with the support of a complex critical instrumentarium made up of postcolonial theory, reader response theory, cultural-critical frameworks, alterity theory, and narratology. Otherness in its manifold representations is a main component of Patrick White's fiction. It functions on several levels and this requires a deeper entanglement on the part of the reader. The different levels previously referred to are embodied in the various Others who people White's novels: ethnic Others as members of the Australian multicultural society and the Aborigines as colonial Others, as well as gender Others, who also play an important role in White's fictional world. Reading Patrick White is an exercise in tolerance, endurance and acceptance of alternatives. But the efforts of the reader do not remain unrewarded. In his endeavour to change what it meant to imagine Australia, the writer broke down the barriers of what it meant to imagine otherness.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783631589090
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The central argument of the thesis, the representation and reception of otherness, is followed throughout White's novels with the support of a complex critical instrumentarium made up of postcolonial theory, reader response theory, cultural-critical frameworks, alterity theory, and narratology. Otherness in its manifold representations is a main component of Patrick White's fiction. It functions on several levels and this requires a deeper entanglement on the part of the reader. The different levels previously referred to are embodied in the various Others who people White's novels: ethnic Others as members of the Australian multicultural society and the Aborigines as colonial Others, as well as gender Others, who also play an important role in White's fictional world. Reading Patrick White is an exercise in tolerance, endurance and acceptance of alternatives. But the efforts of the reader do not remain unrewarded. In his endeavour to change what it meant to imagine Australia, the writer broke down the barriers of what it meant to imagine otherness.
Reading Corporeality in Patrick White's Fiction
Author: Bridget Grogan
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9789004365681
Category : Body and soul in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Reading Corporeality in Patrick White's Fiction Bridget Grogan examines and interprets Patrick White's narrative and philosophical treatment of corporeality and embodiment.
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9789004365681
Category : Body and soul in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Reading Corporeality in Patrick White's Fiction Bridget Grogan examines and interprets Patrick White's narrative and philosophical treatment of corporeality and embodiment.
Comprehensive Dissertation Index
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description