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Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White’s Fiction
Engelsk Hardback
Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White’s Fiction
Engelsk Hardback

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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 orderâfor 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).
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
175
ISBN-13:
9780889209596
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0889209596
Udg. Dato:
30 aug 1989
Længde:
6350mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 aug 1989
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