Otherness In The Novels Of Patrick White

Author : Alma Budurlean
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Australia
ISBN : 3631589093

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Otherness in the Novels of Patrick White by Alma Budurlean Pdf

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.

Author : Bill Ashcroft,Cynthia vanden Driesen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443866156

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Patrick White Centenary by Bill Ashcroft,Cynthia vanden Driesen Pdf

This volume marks the birth centenary of a giant amongst contemporary writers: the Australian Nobel prize-winning novelist, Patrick White (1912–1990). It proffers an invaluable insight into the current state of White studies through commentaries drawn from an international galaxy of eminent critics, as well as from newer talents. The book proves that interest in White’s work continues to grow and diversify. Every essay offers a new insight: some are re-evaluations by seasoned critics who revise earlier positions significantly; others admit new light onto what has seemed like well-trodden terrain or focus on works perhaps undervalued in the past—his poetry, an early short story or novel—which are now subjected to fresh attention. His posthumous work has also won attention from prominent critics. New comparisons with other international writers have been drawn in terms of subject matter, themes and philosophy. The expansion of critical attention into fields like photography and film opens new possibilities for enhancing further appreciation of his work. White’s interest in public issues such as the treatment of Australia’s Indigenous peoples, human rights and Australian nationalism is refracted through the inclusion of relevant commentaries from notable contributors. For the first time in Australian literary history, Indigenous scholars have participated in a celebration of the work of a white Australian writer. All of this highlights a new direction in White studies—the appreciation of his stature as a public intellectual. The book demonstrates that White’s legacy has limitless possibilities for further growth.

Author : Kieran Dolin,Tony Hughes-d'Aeth,Doiminic Hyde
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925643770

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Veronica Brady by Kieran Dolin,Tony Hughes-d'Aeth,Doiminic Hyde Pdf

Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, firmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping the thin veneer of our dominant materialistic culture to forge a greater understanding of our place in a more just world. One-time member of the ABC Board, Brady was a wine-loving, bike-riding, diminutive figure with a fierce reputation for plain speaking. An expert on Australian literature, and living life as a "communist" in a community of Loreto nuns, teaching, she cut a non-conformist figure in an age when the humanist values she upheld seemed increasingly under threat. She strove to defend them with a sharp mind, a contemporary Christian theology, and a willingness to put her boots on the ground in street protests. The essays gathered here by colleagues, students, friends and family bring her compassion, interests and concerns to life with an immediacy, fondness and respect. She inspired others, through her writings, actions and teaching, and the essays reveal her larger-than-life character, her passion for teaching, her concerns for justice for Indigenous Australians, and the intellectual and spiritual legacy she bequeathed to us all.

Author : Carolyn Bliss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349183272

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Patrick White's Fiction by Carolyn Bliss Pdf

This study examines all eleven novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. It begins from the observation that major characters in his novels undergo a necessary, redemptive, or facilitating failure. This failure paradoxically enables their success within the context of what White has called the 'overreaching grandeur' which circumscribes human existence. Evolution of this theme is traced through forty years of White's fiction: from his first novel, Happy Valley (1939), to his most recent work, The Twyborn Affair (1979). Comprehensive in its scope, this book is informed by a thorough knowledge of White's poetry, plays, short stories, and autobiography, as well as his novels. It is also unique in stressing that White's world view derives from a distinctly Australian experience. It thus links him to a country in which he is deeply rooted and to a heritage he continued to affirm.

Author : Bridget Grogan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004365698

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Reading Corporeality in Patrick White’s Fiction by Bridget Grogan Pdf

In Reading Corporeality in Patrick White’s Fiction Bridget Grogan examines and interprets Patrick White’s narrative and philosophical treatment of corporeality and embodiment.

Author : Brigid Rooney
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783088164

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Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity by Brigid Rooney Pdf

‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time. ‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ rethinks existing cultural debates about suburbia – in Australia and elsewhere – by putting novelistic representations of ‘suburbs’ (suburban interiors, homes, streets, forms and lives over time) in dialogue with the often negative idea of ‘suburbia’ in fiction as an amnesic and conformist cultural wasteland. ‘Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity’ shows, in other words, how Australian novels dramatize the collision between the sensory terrain of the remembered suburb and the cultural critique of suburbia. It is through such contradictions that novels create resonant mental maps of place and time. Australian novels are a prism through which suburbs – as sites of everyday colonization, defined by successive waves of urban development – are able to be glimpsed sidelong.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722678

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Patricia A. Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783769326

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The Mystery of Unity by Patricia A. Morley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English philology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123810876

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Annual Report on English and American Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Colmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000639018

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Patrick White by John Colmer Pdf

Patrick White is a giant among the moderns. His massive novels, which chart the lonely paths to truth, challenge orthodox notions about fiction and reality. He has created a wholly new kind of prose to embody his prophetic visions of truth and his fierce denunciations of modern society. Originally published in 1984, John Colmer’s study of the Nobel Prize winning Australian novelist was the first to survey all his published works. It differs from earlier studies in using fresh autobiographical material, in revealing the links between the plays and the fiction and in stressing White’s vision of duality rather than his much praised affirmations of harmony. Where previous studies have been exegetical this one is also evaluative. It illustrates the process by which White has come to recognize the necessity for the reintegration of the alienated visionary into society.

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925774429

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Memoirs of Many in One by Patrick White Pdf

An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series

Author : Frances A. Johnson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004311671

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Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage by Frances A. Johnson Pdf

Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines developments in the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present, including seminal experiments in the genre by Kate Grenville, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Peter Carey, Rohan Wilson and others.

Author : Kay Schaffer
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521499208

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In the Wake of First Contact by Kay Schaffer Pdf

In this book, colonialism, race, and gender are explored through the cultural representations of an episode of Australian history.

Author : Denise Varney
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743327562

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Patrick White's Theatre by Denise Varney Pdf

“Varney combines a theoretically astute sense of the hybridity of the dramatic event, with a dense but lucidly rendered sociological history of White’s plays as they progress through different productions, revivals, and receptions … This is an essential insight, and one which could be usefully extended to White’s novels, and perhaps to Australian modernism broadly.” - Jonathan Dunk, Australian Book Review One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting. In Patrick White’s Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White’s eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian theatre over time. Varney unpacks White’s complex and unique theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.

Author : J. Clements
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230353923

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Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel by J. Clements Pdf

This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature