This critical study considers Patrick White's 12 published novels, and traces the connections between his life and work. The novels from "The Aunt's Story" to "Memoirs of Many in One" are considered in terms of a number of overlapping contexts: White's ambivalence about sexuality, nationality and modernity; his evolving sense of the possibilities of the novel as a form; and the continuing presence of the themes, experiments and influences of the 1930s shaping his mature fiction. Throughout his study Williams examines the ...
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This critical study considers Patrick White's 12 published novels, and traces the connections between his life and work. The novels from "The Aunt's Story" to "Memoirs of Many in One" are considered in terms of a number of overlapping contexts: White's ambivalence about sexuality, nationality and modernity; his evolving sense of the possibilities of the novel as a form; and the continuing presence of the themes, experiments and influences of the 1930s shaping his mature fiction. Throughout his study Williams examines the various categories that have been applied to White's work - modernist, romantic, religious, Australian and so on. While finding that such tendencies are productively at work in White's fiction, Williams insists that White finally escapes all categories.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 350grams, ISBN: 9780333517154.
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Very Good. Ex-Library. 6 x 8" A very good hardcover; an ex-library copy with usual markings; internally pages bright and clean; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------a volume in the Modern Novelist series;
