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Four approaches to Patrick White.(Literature)(Critical essay)
THE SO-CALLED history wars are part of a broader conflict of interpretation within the humanities. The variety of academic approaches to Patrick White's fiction is an example of that conflict. The first generation of White academics noticed an interrogation being conducted within his novels and short stories, and they used first-level evidence to demonstrate that interrogation. First-level evidence--by which I mean data from the primary texts of White's fiction--is no longer in fashion. Now the tendency is to focus on literary and cultural theory or on opinions about White's personality.
One of the many ironies of this tendency is that, not long after psychiatry ...
- Patrick White: a Bibliography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin Bookwatch February 1, 2005 700+ words
Patrick White: A Bibliography Brian Hubber &...of Brian Hubber and Vivian Smith, Patrick White: A Bibliography is a straightforward...extensive bibliography of the writings of Patrick White (1912-1990), one of Australia...
- Patrick White.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Coad, David September 22, 1996 700+ words
...half-cult: Cultural Studies. Patrick White is the final monograph in Oxford...housewives and homosexuals. He is piqued by Patrick White's status as a "great writer...complexity, and doubtful of genius. In Patrick White During deploys what the back cover...
- Patrick White's haunting vision of crazed old age
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times John O'Brien December 14, 1986 700+ words
...One by Alex Xenophon Demirjian GrayBy Patrick White. Viking. $15.95. Like William...And fair needs foul,' I cried"), Patrick White's heroine is a gruff, crusty, earthy...the Middle East during World War II. Patrick White, who had known Hilary since childhood...
- Patrick White Letters.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 18, 1995 700+ words
PATRICK WHITE LETTERS. Edited by David Marr. Jonathan...journalist, published a massive biography of Patrick White, the Australian novelist who won the Nobel...the bloody obdurate destiny of the novelist Patrick White.
- Patrick White and Alchemy.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies Lever, Susan October 1, 2003 700+ words
Patrick White and Alchemy. by James Bulman-May...Publishing, 2001. Hardback, $55.00 Patrick White, Painter Manque: Paintings, Painters...David Marr's monumental biography of Patrick White appears to have had the effect of...
- Writing the nation; Patrick White and the indigene.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2009 700+ words
9789042025165 Writing the nation; Patrick White and the indigene. Driesen, Cynthia...three texts by Australian novelist Patrick White: Voss (1957), Riders in the Chariot...non-European Other. In essence, Patrick White's project was a rare white writer...
- The ethics of abjection: Patrick White's 'Riders in the Chariot.'
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies McCann, Andrew October 1, 1997 700+ words
...Michael Wilding has recently discussed Patrick White's modernism in terms of White's...average"' in Australian society (Patrick White Speaks 15). As Wilding shows it is...with which he is often received' (Patrick White Speaks 156-57). White's annoyance...
- Why Voss?(National Library of Australia on Patrick White's novel)
- Magazine article from: National Library of Australia Gateways Holmes, Robyn Plush, Vincent August 1, 2009 700+ words
...creation. Such has been the legacy of Patrick White's novel Voss, first published in...Leichhardt, whose expedition diaries Patrick White so fastidiously recorded in his notebooks...in Australian history, encompassing Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Harry M. Miller...
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