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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Patrick White"”.
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Music in the life and work of Patrick White
Arguably, Patrick White (1912-1990) is Australia’s best known and most celebrated writer. In a working life spanning almost seven decades, he produced twelve novels, eight produced plays, three books of short stories and several collections of poetry, as well as several film scripts (only one of …
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Patrick White "The bowerbird": Beyond Nature and Culture in the Anthropocene
This thesis examines how Patrick White's (1912-1990) fiction unsettles inherited distinctions between nature and culture by transforming perception and literary form. Through close readings across his oeuvre, including The Aunt's Story, Voss, and The Cockatoos, it shows how landscape acts as an …
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"Variations of the rainbow" : mysticism, history and aboriginal Australia in Patrick White
This study examines Patrick White's Voss, Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves. These works, which span White's creative career, demonstrate certain abiding preoccupations, while also showing a marked shift in treatment and philosophy. In Chapter One Voss is discussed as an essentially …
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La revisión poscolonial de la historia australiana en la narrativa modernista y posmodernista: Patrick White y Peter carey
… en el panorama literario internacional como Patrick Wihite y Peter Caray a acercarse a la historia de su pais, así como en los planteamientos éticos y estéticos que les inspiran, y las conclusiones que alcanzan. Estéticamente indentificados con el modernismo y el postmodernismo, ambos autores …
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Black and White on Black: Whiteness and Masculinity in the Works of Three Australian Writers - Thomas Keneally, Colin Thiele, and Patrick White.
<p>White depictions of Aborigines in literature have generally been culturally biased. In this study I explore four depictions of Indigenous Australians by white Australian writers. Thomas Keneally's <em>The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith</em> (1972) depicts a half-caste Aborigine's attempt to enter …
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"Men made out of words": reading men writing masculinities in Australian literature
… bar"), George Johnston ("My brother Jack") and Patrick White ("The Twyborn affair")
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Self and (m)other in Patrick White's fiction : an object relations approach
This thesis offers a new interpretation of Patrick White's novels, using Object Relations psychology. Object Relations psychology differs from Freudian psychology in that it shifts the focus of attention from notions of the Oedipal conflict and repression to issues of nurturing and relationships. …
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From Hope to Disillusion? A Literary and Cultural History of the Whitlam Period, 1966-1975
… contention is found in the lives and works of Patrick White, Frank Hardy and Les Murray, authors held to best represent the major - Anglocentric, nationalist and American - cultural influences of the Whitlam period.
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Wittgensteinian descriptivism and concepts of self-renunciation
… works of Francois Mauriac, Georges Bernanos, and Patrick White. Distinct divergencies from many of the Wittgensteinian theses are unearthed. Part III traces the roots of each of the Wittgensteinian theses to their sitz im leben in a strain of neo-Romanticism centred on securing independence of the …
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The Explorer in English Fiction
… my view, to the genre - Defoe, Melville, Conrad, Patrick White. In each case I deal principally with two texts: Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton; Typee, Moby Dick; An Outcast of the Islands, Heart of Darkness; Voss and A Fringe of Leaves. Wealth of reference is often a mark of literary stature, …