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During takes advantage of recently published letters and biographical information to rethink Patrick White's place in Australian history and culture. He argues that White's rather conventional modernist writings negotiated the end of colonial relations with Britain. During addresses connections between White's homosexuality and his writing, suggesting that many of his texts attain some of their most powerful effects from being written in and about the closet. In addition, he views White as an autobiographical writer who drew on his life to construct an image of himself as a genius: a strategy which successfully set him at the head of Australian national literature. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Painting was a vital source of inspiration for Australia's beloved novelist. This essential biography traces the influence of 20th-century Australian artists and European Modernist and Romantic artists, in his life and work. Based on entirely new research, this is the first study to make a strong connection between White's work and the visual arts. Also discussed are issues that White was deeply interested and involved in, such as the development of an open and diverse Australian culture; the importance of Aboriginal culture and feeling for the land; nuclear disarmament; the Green Bans; an Australian republic; antimaterialism; and spirituality and its creative expression. ... Read more

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Based on Jungian ideas about the archetypal patterns of the psyche, this study contests long-held beliefs about the work of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White--arguing that his fiction is dominated by the workings of his unconscious mind and that its symbolic patterns are those of a mother complex--and offers profound insight into the Australian consciousness. ... Read more

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A straightforward and extensive bibliography
The expert collaboration of Brian Hubber and Vivian Smith, Patrick White: A Bibliography is a straightforward and extensive bibliography of the writings of Patrick White (1912-1990), one of Australia's greatest writers, recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, whose work has been translated into thirty-one languages. Bibliography entries include descriptions of all the editions and translations of White's works, listings of reviews of first and other significant editions, and accounts of the composition and reception of each work, as well as such mundane facts as book physical description, page count, dimensions, print run, etc. A superb, high-quality text that spares no detail, especially recommended for reference libraries and individual enthusiasts who need to know detailed information about Patrick White's works.

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