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'This paper examines Patrick White's novel The Aunt's Story and the way in which it fictionally shows mutual scrutiny and perception between Australia and Europe. Central to the elaboration of this study is the notion of fictional viewpoint, which Leech and Short (1986, p 174) define as 'the slanting of the fictional world towards reality, as apprehended by a particular participant, or set of participants, in the fiction'. Notions of distance of viewpoint from an 'outside' or 'inside' perspective and the way in which they affect construction and perception of places are also instrumental in this analysis.' (353)
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Perceiving Europe and Australia and Constructing an Imagined Australian Identity in The Aunts’ Story by Patrick White.
Subjects:
- The Aunt's Story 1948 single work novel
- The Prodigal Son 1958 single work prose
- Patrick White Speaks 1989 selected work autobiography correspondence prose
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