Dissociation and wholeness in Patrick White's fiction [[electronic resource] /] / Laurence Steven
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| Autore: |
Steven Laurence <1953->
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| Titolo: |
Dissociation and wholeness in Patrick White's fiction [[electronic resource] /] / Laurence Steven
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1989 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823 |
| Soggetto topico: | Canadian fiction |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliography. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Patrick 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 whic |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dissociation and wholeness in Patrick White's fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-55458-599-6 |
| 1-282-23316-5 | |
| 9786613810908 | |
| 0-88920-592-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154968703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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