Remembering Patrick White : : contemporary critical essays / / edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas.

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 rang...

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Superior document:Cross cultures ; Reading in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ; 128
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures 128.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages).
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Public Recluse: Patrick White’s Literary-Political Returns / Brigid Rooney
  • Riders in the Chariot: A Tale For Our Times / Bernadette Brennan
  • Patrick White and His Award / Rodney Wetherell
  • Homo Nullius: The Politics of Pessimism in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man / Jennifer Rutherford
  • The Symbol in Patrick White / Anthony Uhlmann
  • The Lateness and Queerness of The Twyborn Affair: White’s Farewell to the Novel / Elizabeth Mcmahon
  • The Presence of the Sacred in Patrick White / Bill Ashcroft
  • Voss: Earthed and Transformative Sacredness / Lyn Mccredden
  • The Dragon Slayer: Patrick White and the Contestation of History / Veronica Brady
  • The Late, Crazy Plays / John Mccallum
  • “Some of the doors of the house have never been seen open”: Poetic Habitation and Civil Space in Patrick White’s Early Drama / Brigitta Olubas
  • Against the Androgyne as Humanist He(te)ro: Patrick White’s Queering of the Platonic Myth / Gregory Graham–Smith
  • Bibliography: Patrick White, 1994–2009 / Lorraine Burdett
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.