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‘In the years directly after World War Two, novelist Patrick White confronted a series of thresholds. Each one would take him further into his vocation as a writer of astounding, dense, haunting novels. The young Patrick White did not, of course, know this at the time. He first needed to cross the world, returning from his beloved London to become an Australian again. He had to begin writing about Australia, about being Australian, but not just this. He began to seek ways of writing about how meaning is made, in Australia and beyond; and how meaning is made alone, and in community. This struggle to make and unmake meaning, it will be argued, is a languaged, sacred struggle. ’ (Introduction)
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“Splintering and Coalescing” : Language and the Sacred in Patrick White’s Novels
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- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- The Solid Mandala 1966 single work novel
- The Vivisector 1970 single work novel
- The Night the Prowler 1974 single work short story
- A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel
- The Twyborn Affair 1979 single work novel
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