Reading corporeality in Patrick White's fiction : : an abject dictatorship of the flesh / / by Bridget Grogan.

In Reading Corporeality in Patrick White’s Fiction: An Abject Dictatorship of the Flesh , Bridget Grogan combines theoretical explication, textual comparison, and close reading to argue that corporeality is central to Patrick White’s fiction, shaping the characterization, style, narrative trajectori...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures 204.
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Abjection, Compassion, and White’s Recuperation of Affective Corporeality
  • Mind/Body Dualism
  • Pulsating Prose
  • The Body Imprisoned
  • Ladies and Gentlemen?
  • White’s Somatic Spirituality
  • Abject Corporeality and Somatic Spirituality
  • Unifying the Fragments
  • Works Cited
  • Index.