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Patrick White : (Auto) Biography - A Veiled Confession?
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 19-25) '...White's recourse to two particular autobiographical labels and modes (self-portrait and memoir) requires an appreciation of the complexity of these various models of life writing. In this essay, however, I shall be primarily concerned with White's technology of foreclosure of the confessional option.' (From author's introduction)
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‘Shapely Experience’ and the Limits of ‘Late Colonial Transcendentalism’ : The Portrait of the Artist as Soldier in Roger McDonald’s 1915
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 11 no. 2 2011; 'This essay argues that Roger McDonald's debut novel 1915 represents a form of literary modernism which rejects the easy aesthetic comforts of 'late colonial transcendentalism' (17). McDonald presents an intricate -- we might even say ritualised -- pattern of subversive counterpoint to 'reveal and dramatise the failure of the subject to escape its own limits, and hence its own history' (McCann 155). The result is a highly self-conscious literary novel that seeks to reconcile the art of high modernism with a postcolonial practice interested in the consequences of public memory.' (Author's abstract)
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The Solid Mandala and Patrick White’s Late Modernity
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 4 no. 1 2011; 'This essay contends that the Australian novelist Patrick White (1912-1990) presents, in his novel The Solid Mandala (1966), a prototypical evocation of late modernity that indicates precisely why and how it was different from the neoliberal and postmodern era that succeeded it. Late modernity is currently emerging as a historical period, though still a nascent and contested one. Robert Hassan speaks of the 1950-1970 era as a period which, in its 'Fordist' mode of production maintained a certain conformity yet held off the commoditisation of later neoliberalism's 'network-driven capitalism'. This anchors the sense of 'late modernity,' that will operate in this essay, though my sense of the period also follows on definitions of the term established, in very different contexts, by Edward Lucie-Smith and Tyrus Miller.' (Author's introduction)
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Book Reviews
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 12 no. 1 1997; (p. 156-158)
— Review of A. D. Hope 1992 single work criticism ; Gerald Murnane 1993 single work criticism ; Patrick White 1996 single work criticism -
An Absence of Partisanship
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 1 1997; (p. 94-101)
— Review of The 1890s : Australian Literature and Literary Culture 1996 anthology criticism biography poetry ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism ; Australian Poetic Satire 1995 selected work criticism ; Bio-Fictions : Brian Matthews, Drusilla Modjeska and Elizabeth Jolley 1994 selected work criticism ; Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; Arthur's Dream : The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; 'And What Books Do You Read?' : New Studies in Australian Literature 1996 anthology biography short story extract criticism
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An Absence of Partisanship
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 1 1997; (p. 94-101)
— Review of The 1890s : Australian Literature and Literary Culture 1996 anthology criticism biography poetry ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction 1995 single work criticism ; Australian Poetic Satire 1995 selected work criticism ; Bio-Fictions : Brian Matthews, Drusilla Modjeska and Elizabeth Jolley 1994 selected work criticism ; Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; Arthur's Dream : The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; 'And What Books Do You Read?' : New Studies in Australian Literature 1996 anthology biography short story extract criticism -
Contradiction and Contemporary Literary Culture
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Voices , Spring vol. 6 no. 3 1996; (p. 111-115)
— Review of Arthur's Dream : The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White 1996 single work criticism ; Patrick White 1996 single work criticism -
Book Reviews
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 12 no. 1 1997; (p. 156-158)
— Review of A. D. Hope 1992 single work criticism ; Gerald Murnane 1993 single work criticism ; Patrick White 1996 single work criticism -
Challenge to White Supremacy
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 March 1996; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Patrick White 1996 single work criticism -
Over White's Dead Body
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 March 1996; (p. 8)
— Review of Patrick White 1996 single work criticism -
The Solid Mandala and Patrick White’s Late Modernity
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 4 no. 1 2011; 'This essay contends that the Australian novelist Patrick White (1912-1990) presents, in his novel The Solid Mandala (1966), a prototypical evocation of late modernity that indicates precisely why and how it was different from the neoliberal and postmodern era that succeeded it. Late modernity is currently emerging as a historical period, though still a nascent and contested one. Robert Hassan speaks of the 1950-1970 era as a period which, in its 'Fordist' mode of production maintained a certain conformity yet held off the commoditisation of later neoliberalism's 'network-driven capitalism'. This anchors the sense of 'late modernity,' that will operate in this essay, though my sense of the period also follows on definitions of the term established, in very different contexts, by Edward Lucie-Smith and Tyrus Miller.' (Author's introduction)
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‘Shapely Experience’ and the Limits of ‘Late Colonial Transcendentalism’ : The Portrait of the Artist as Soldier in Roger McDonald’s 1915
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 11 no. 2 2011; 'This essay argues that Roger McDonald's debut novel 1915 represents a form of literary modernism which rejects the easy aesthetic comforts of 'late colonial transcendentalism' (17). McDonald presents an intricate -- we might even say ritualised -- pattern of subversive counterpoint to 'reveal and dramatise the failure of the subject to escape its own limits, and hence its own history' (McCann 155). The result is a highly self-conscious literary novel that seeks to reconcile the art of high modernism with a postcolonial practice interested in the consequences of public memory.' (Author's abstract)
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Patrick White : (Auto) Biography - A Veiled Confession?
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 19-25) '...White's recourse to two particular autobiographical labels and modes (self-portrait and memoir) requires an appreciation of the complexity of these various models of life writing. In this essay, however, I shall be primarily concerned with White's technology of foreclosure of the confessional option.' (From author's introduction)
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Craven on During : During on White
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 55 no. 2 1996; (p. 267-275) -
Curious About Patrick White
1996
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 March 1996; (p. 8)
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Subjects:
- A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel
- Riders in the Chariot 1961 single work novel
- The Tree of Man 1955 single work novel
- The Living and the Dead 1941 single work novel
- The Twyborn Affair 1979 single work novel
- Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait 1981 single work autobiography
- The Eye of the Storm 1973 single work novel
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