Patrick White beyond the grave : new critical perspectives / edited by Ian Henderson and Anouk Lang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henderson, Ian R., editor.

Lang, Anouk, 1976- editor.

Series:

Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series

Anthem studies in Australian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White, Patrick, 1912-1990--Criticism and interpretation.

White, Patrick.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2015.

Summary:

Patrick White (1912-1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia's most celebrated writers. In 2006, White's literary executor, Barbara Mobbs, released a highly significant collection of hitherto unpublished papers, reviving mainstream and scholarly interest in his work. 'Patrick White Beyond the Grave' considers White's writing in light of the new findings, acknowledging his homosexuality in relation to the development of his literary style, examining the way he engages his readers, and contextualizing his life and oeuvre in relation to London and to London life. Thought-provoking, this collection of original essays represents the work of an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe, and will no doubt inspire further work on White from a rising generation of scholars of twentieth-century literature beyond Australia.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. RESURRECTED PAPERS; Chapter 1. The Evidence of the Archive; Margaret Harris and Elizabeth Webby; Chapter 2. Leichhardt and Voss Revisited; Angus Nicholls; Part II. MANY IN ONE; Chapter 3. White's London; David Marr; Chapter 4. Elective Affinities: Manning Clark, Patrick White and Sidney Nolan; Mark McKenna; Chapter 5. 'Dismantled and Re-Constructed': Flaws in the Glass Re-Visioned; Georgina Loveridge; Chapter 6. Patrick White's Late Style; Andrew McCann; Part III. THE PERFORMANCE OF READING

Chapter 7. Patrick White's ExpressionismIvor Indyk; Chapter 8. The Doubling of Reality in Patrick White's The Aunt's Story and Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness; Aruna Wittmann; Chapter 9. Desperate, Marvellous Shuttling: White's Ambivalent Modernism; Gail Jones; Chapter 10. 'Time and Its Fellow Conspirator Space': Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves; Brigid Rooney; Part IV. QUEER WHITE; Chapter 11. Knockabout World: Patrick White, Kenneth Williams and the Queer Word; Ian Henderson; Chapter 12. Queering Sarsaparilla: Patrick White's Deviant Modernism; Anouk Lang; Contributors

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).

ISBN:

1-78308-399-9

1-78308-445-6