| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) |
| Series |
Cross cultures ; Reading in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ; 128 |
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Cross/cultures ; 128.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Public Recluse: Patrick White's Literary-Political Returns -- Riders in the Chariot: A Tale For Our Times / Brigid Rooney -- Patrick White and his Award / Bernadette Brennan -- Homo Nullius: The Politics of Pessimism in Patrick White's The Tree of Man / Rodney Wetherell -- Symbol in Patrick White / Jennifer Rutherford -- Lateness and Queerness of The Twyborn Affair: White's Farewell to the Novel / Anthony Uhlmann -- Presence of the Sacred in Patrick White / Elizabeth Mcmahon -- Voss: Earthed and Transformative Sacredness / Bill Ashcroft -- Dragon Slayer: Patrick White and the Contestation of History / Lyn Mccredden -- Late, Crazy Plays / Veronica Brady -- "Some of the doors of the house have never been seen open": Poetic Habitation and Civil Space in Patrick White's Early Drama / John Mccallum -- Against the Androgyne as Humanist He(te)ro: Patrick White's Queering of the Platonic Myth / Brigitta Olubas -- Patrick White, 1994-2009 / Gregory Graham-Smith |
| Summary |
Remembering Patrick White presents the first major study of the full range of White's work in over twenty-five years, and aims to bring this important author up to date for new generations of readers and scholars. Patrick White is a writer of moods and perspectives and the essays collected here range in their focus over his public presentations, his formal challenges, his spiritual leanings and dramatic gestures. They examine the breadth and significance of White's intellectual contribution and consider the ongoing legacy of his thought and his art within national and international frames. As a collection, they focus our attention on what Patrick White means at the juncture of the present, reading his work through contemporary critical perspectives that further underscore the dynamism and substance of his writing |
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"Remembering Patrick White is an essential shot in the arm. It reminds us we do need actively to remember Patrick White, to fetch him back centre-stage in Australian literary scholarship. And yet the essays in this book also look forward, remembering in order to re-energise scholarship on White's novels, plays, and life. Indeed, if this timely book reminds us of the vitalityûand the resolute contemporaneousness-of White's intellectual engagement with Australia and the world, it is to show us how much we still have to gain from bringing new perspectives to bear upon his body of work, which is no less astounding in the twenty-first century than it was during his lifetime."--Ian Henderson, King's College London |
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Elizabeth Mcmahon and Brigitta Olubas are both Senior Lecturers in English at the University of New South Wales and are co-editors of Women Making lime: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis' (2006). Elizabeth has published numerous essays on Patrick White and is the co-editor of Southerly, Australia's oldest literary journal. Brigitta has published widely on Australian literary and visual culture, including essays on Tracey Moffatt and Raimond Gaita. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
White, Patrick, 1912-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
White, Patrick, 1912-1990 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McMahon, Elizabeth
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Olubas, Brigitta
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| ISBN |
9789042028500 |
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9042028505 |
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