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Reading Corporeality in Patrick White’s Fiction

Author : Bridget Grogan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365699
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Reading Corporeality in Patrick White’s Fiction written by Bridget Grogan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 trajectories, and implicit philosophy of his novels and short stories. Critics have often identified a radical disgust at play in White’s writing, claiming that it arises from a defining dualism that posits the ‘purity’ of the disembodied ‘spirit’ in relation to the ‘pollution’ of the material world. Grogan argues convincingly, however, that White’s fiction is far more complex in its approach to the body. Modeling ways in which Kristevan theory may be applied to modern fiction, her close attention to White’s recurring interest in physicality and abjection draws attention to his complex questioning of metaphysics and subjectivity, thereby providing a fresh and compelling reading of this important world author.

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009099507
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel written by Nicholas Birns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and crucial present of the Australian novel.

Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White’s Fiction

Author : Laurence Steven
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205922
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White’s Fiction written by Laurence Steven and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1989-08-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of Patrick White's fiction are devoted to elucidating archetypal patterns, symbolic configurations, and thematic preoccupations, and generally to praising the way White's fictional elements combine to form a religio-mystical worldview. Few have questioned this critical approach to White; fewer still have questioned White's vision itself. Yet, according to the author, questioning is in order—for Patrick White is a man divided. One part of him strives for permanence, for the ideal, in a world he knows is contingent and temporal, a world that will undermine his striving. This leads him as a novelist to devalue human life and to impose arbitrary, symbolic resolutions on his novels. This has been the focus of most critics. But there is another side, a part of White that strains away from the dualism of idealism versus despair and towards a vital wholeness that can be found, not in a world beyond the one we live in, but in human relationships. It is this side of Patrick White, argues Laurence Steven, that is the source of his genuine power as a novelist. An important challenge for the critic is "to develop an ability to see, within the restrictive compass [White's] symbolic designs impose on the novels, 'the new shoots,' as [D. H.] Lawrence would have it, which indicate new life, new creativity, and which point towards a wholeness which human beings can embrace as their own" (Introduction).

Memoirs of Many in One

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925774422
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Many in One written by Patrick White and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series

Patrick White Centenary

Author : Bill Ashcroft
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443866156
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Patrick White Centenary written by Bill Ashcroft and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Monstrous Reflection

Author : Petra Rehling
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848884079
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Reflection written by Petra Rehling and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twyborn Affair

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742743765
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Twyborn Affair written by Patrick White and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a novel that satisfies as much as it challenges. Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With this androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us on a journey into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.

Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel

Author : J. Clements
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230353924
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel written by J. Clements and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Night Letters

Author : Robert Dessaix
Publisher : Xou Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1925143953
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Night Letters written by Robert Dessaix and published by Xou Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters, against a rich background of earlier journeys in literature, with Dante as his imagined guide, he reflects on what it means to live a good life in the face of death. Praise for Night Letters by Robert Dessaix ‘Dessaix writes with great elegance, with passion, compassion and sly wit. Literally, a wonderful book.’ John Banville ‘An absolutely unique book: intelligent, funny, rich, tender at the right moments, a plum pudding of stories, observations and discoveries.’ Alberto Manguel ‘Night Letters is exhilarating. The goads, the teasing, the question marks fired up into the atmosphere make any passive reading of it quite impossible.’ The Sydney Morning Herald

The House of Hunger

Author : Dambudzo Marechera
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478609494
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The House of Hunger written by Dambudzo Marechera and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This explosive, award-winning novella of growing up in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), told in exquisite, imaginative prose, touches the readers nerve through the authors harrowing portrait of lives disrupted by white settlers, a young disillusioned black man, and individual suffering in the 1960s and 1970s. Marecheras raw, piercing writings secured his place in African literature as a stylistic innovator and rebel commentator of the ghetto condition. While The House of Hunger is the centerpiece of this collection, readers are also treated to a series of short sketches in which Marechera, with angry humor, further navigates themes of madness, violence, despair, and survival.

Voss

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014310568X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Voss written by Patrick White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature." Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is White's best-known book, a sweeping novel about a secret passion between the explorer Voss and the young orphan Laura. As Voss is tested by hardship, mutiny, and betrayal during his crossing of the brutal Australian desert, Laura awaits his return in Sydney, where she endures their months of separation as if her life were a dream and Voss the only reality. Marrying a sensitive rendering of hidden love with a stark adventure narrative, Voss is a novel of extraordinary power and virtuosity from a twentieth-century master. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Vivisector

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1436254620
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Vivisector written by Patrick White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power

Author : Emanuela Tegla
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900430844X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power written by Emanuela Tegla and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For I was not, as I liked to believe, the indulgent pleasure-loving opposite of the cold rigid Colonel. I was the lie that Empire tells itself when times are easy, he the truth that Empire tells when harsh winds blow.” Thus the Magistrate confesses in Coetzee’s 1980 novel Waiting for the Barbarians. The present study looks closely into the unsettling effects Coetzee’s novels have on the reader and explores the interconnectedness between stylistic choices and moral insights. Its overall aim is to disclose the effectiveness of Coetzee’s narrative strategies to prompt the reader to engage in self-questioning and radical revisions of personal and social moral assumptions. “This is an original and ground-breaking study of Coetzee’s work. Dr Tegla’s insightful close-readings highlight the ways in which Coetzee fictionalizes a variety of moral dilemmas. In particular, she shows how he turns narrative into an instrument for moral discernment. Her narratological approach advances our understanding of his achievements, and I can state without reservation that this book will be referred to as a landmark in Coetzee criticism.” — Richard Bradford, Research Professor and Senior Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Ulster

The Cockatoos

Author : Patrick White
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925774414
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Cockatoos written by Patrick White and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential story collection from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series

Laden Choirs

Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813165067
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Laden Choirs written by Peter Wolfe and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe. Yet White is still not widely known or read, and few writers of today have provoked so many contradictory judgments. Now Peter Wolfe has written the first book-length study of the work of this brilliant and haunting novelist. The study offers a subtle, penetrating examination of White's style, his skill in building narrative tension, and also the depth and complexity reflected in his characterization, which, in his novels, always dominates action. Fittingly, for a writer whose novels bear the indelible stamp of Australia, the study also examines White's psychological use of setting and the intense sense of place found in his work. No other critical study of White covers such a broad range of his writing. Peter Wolfe considers here the entire canon of the novels. The Tree of Man, Voss, The Vivisector, The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of Leaves, and The Twyborn Affair (White's most recent novel) are all discussed. White's themes and settings range from the power and immensity of the wilderness of the Australian outback to the dislocations wrought in traditional values by postwar industrialization and urban sprawl. Laden Choirs makes accessible to an American audience a writer of the first rank, whose work lies at the heart of modernist concerns. Literary students and scholars who wish to explore the world of Patrick White will find this book an essential key.

The End of Books--or Books Without End?

Author : J. Yellowlees Douglas
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472088461
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The End of Books--or Books Without End? written by J. Yellowlees Douglas and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the possibilities of hypertext fiction as art form and entertainment

Distorted Bodies and Suffering Souls.

Author : Chantal Kwast-Greff
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209286
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Distorted Bodies and Suffering Souls. written by Chantal Kwast-Greff and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos. Pain. Self-mutilation. Women starve themselves. They burn or slash their own flesh or their babies’ throats, and slam their newborns against walls. Their bodies are the canvases on which the suffering of the soul carves itself with knife and razor. In Australian fiction written by women between 1984 and 1994, female characters inscribe their inner chaos on their bodies to exert whatever power they have over themselves. Their self-inflicted pain is both reaction and language, the bodily sign not only of their enfeeblement but also to a certain extent of their empowerment, of themselves and their world. The texts considered in this book – chiefly by Margaret Coombs, Kate Grenville, Fiona Place, Penelope Rowe, Leone Sperling, and Amy Witting – function as both defiance and ac¬ceptance of prevailing discourses of femininity and patriarchy, between submission and a possible future. The narratives of anorexia, bulimia, fatness, self-mutilation, incest, and murder shock the reader into an understanding of deeper meanings of body and soul, and prompt a tentative interpretation of fiction in relation to the world of ‘real’ women and men in contemporary (white) Australia. This is affective literature with the reader in voyeuristic complicity. Holding up the mirror of fiction, the women writers act perforce as a social lever, their narratives as Bildungsromane. But there is a risk, that of reinforcing stereotypes and codes of conduct which, supposedly long gone, still represent women as victims. Why are the female characters (self-)destroyers and victims? Why are they not heroes, saviours or conquerors? If women read about women / themselves and feel pity for the Other they read about, they will also feel pity for themselves: there is little happiness in being a woman. But infanticide and distorting the body are problem-solving behaviours. In truth, the bodies of the female characters bear the marks and scars of the history of their mothers and the history of their grandmothers – indeed, that of their own: the history of survivors.