| Description |
xi, 323 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Critical essays on world literature |
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Critical essays on world literature.
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| Contents |
Introduction : whither the Bunyip now? / Peter Wolfe -- Part I. White on White -- The prodigal son / Patrick White -- Patrick White / Patrick White -- A conversation with Patrick White / Thelma Herring and G.A. Wilkes -- Factual writing and fiction / Patrick White -- Part II. Reviews -- Happy and unhappy [Happy valley] / Seaforth [Kenneth] Mackenzie -- The Bunyip stages a comeback [The tree of man] / A.D. Hope -- Poetic symbolism in a novel by Patrick White [Voss] / Kylie Tennant -- White's triumphal chariot [Riders in the chariot] / Geoffrey Dutton -- Mysteries of sensual identity [The Twyborn affair] / Nancy Schapiro -- The anguished quest for self-discovery [The Twyborn affair] / Peter Wolfe -- Patrick White : the end of genius [Memoirs of many in one] / David J. Tacey -- Crusades against hoopla and pain [Three uneasy pieces] / Carolyn Bliss -- Part III. Articles and essays -- Odyssey of a spinster : a study of The aunt's story / Thelma Herring -- The tree of man : an essay in scepticism / Leonie Kramer -- Voss and others / William Walsh -- The mandala design of Patrick White's Riders in the chariot / Edgar L. Chapman -- Patrick White : the great mother and her son [The solid mandala] / David J. Tacey -- Jaws [The eye of the storm] / Peter Wolfe -- A properly appointed humanism : Australian culture and the Aborigines in Patrick White's A fringe of leaves / Veronica Brady -- Australian contemporary drama : Patrick White / Dennis Carroll -- Epiphanies in tables and goats : The burnt ones and The cockatoos / John A. Weigel -- Patrick White's style / Harry Heseltine -- From the articles and the novelist / Hilary Heltay -- Patrick White and Lawrence : a contrast / Rodney Mather -- The novelist and the reign of necessity : Patrick White and Simone Weil / Veronica Brady -- A severed leg : anthropophagy and communion in Patrick White's fiction / Don Anderson -- The psychic mandala / Peter Beatson -- Duality in Patrick White / John Colmer -- Meaning and experience : a review-essay on some recurrent problems in Patrick White criticism / Alan Lawson |
| Analysis |
Australian literature |
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Patrick White |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) |
| Subject |
White, Patrick, 1912-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101694
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| Author |
Wolfe, Peter, 1933-
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| LC no. |
89038924 |
| ISBN |
0816188467 |
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