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This paper explores 'the intuitive and the rational towards the realization of a transcendent reality in Patrick White's Voss (1957), and the arrangement and juxtaposition of images and metaphors found in Vedic and Upanishadic literature to determine "the core of reality" in this highly mystical and ambiguous novel.' It attempts to 'bring in through this study the potentialities and complexities of the Vedic split of the "cosmic and acosmic" of Being and Time as projected across two different transcultural spaces, the Australian and the Indian' and considers 'if this split of time-consciousness signify a timeless reality or a unifying force'. (p. 1)
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Epigraph: "Akam Sat; Vipra baahudha vadanti"
(That which Is, is one. Wise men speak of it in many ways) -Rig Veda
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The Cosmic and Acosmic : A Redefinition of Being and Time in Patrick White’s Voss
The Indian Review of World Literature in English
The Indian Review of World Literature in English
