02884nam 2200697Ia 450 991015496870332120230331005842.01-55458-599-61-282-23316-597866138109080-88920-592-210.51644/9780889205925(CKB)2430000000002557(EBL)685921(OCoLC)243586695(SSID)ssj0000381939(PQKBManifestationID)12127337(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000381939(PQKBWorkID)10392258(PQKB)10089897(SSID)ssj0000745177(PQKBManifestationID)12275528(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000745177(PQKBWorkID)10852491(PQKB)10473210(CaPaEBR)402361(CaBNvSL)rjv00101393 (MiAaPQ)EBC3246294(OCoLC)1016750367(MdBmJHUP)muse58124(MiAaPQ)EBC685921(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/pknhv6(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402361(DE-B1597)667274(DE-B1597)9780889205925(EXLCZ)99243000000000255719880704d1989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDissociation and wholeness in Patrick White's fiction[electronic resource] /Laurence StevenWaterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc19891 online resource (176 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-88920-959-6 Includes bibliography.Contents; Preface; A Note on Editions and References; Introduction; ONE: The Aunt's Story; TWO: Riders in the Chariot; THREE: The Vivisector; FOUR: A Fringe of Leaves; Epilogue: The Twyborn Affair; Bibliography; IndexPatrick White is a man divided: one part of him strives for permanence, surety, the ideal, while knowing the contingent, temporal realm he inhabits must inevitably undermine such striving. The desire, and the knowledge of its futility, leads him into a misanthropic devaluation of human creative possibility and, complementarily, into the arbitrary use of imposed symbolic resolutions directed to an elect who can ""see"". It has been this part of White, largely, that criticism has been industrious in explicating, if not in quite the terms I have used above. But there is another part of White whicCanadian fictionCanadian fiction.823Steven Laurence1953-1233458MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154968703321Dissociation and wholeness in Patrick White's fiction2864716UNINA