Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction

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Patrick White is a man divided: one part of him strives for permanence, surety, the ideal, while knowing the contingent, temporal realm he inhabits must inevitably undermine such striving. The desire, and the knowledge of its futility, leads him into a misanthropic devaluation of human creative poss...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steven, Laurence, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
White, Patrick, > 1912-1990.
White, Patrick, > 1912-1990 > Criticism and interpretation.
Psychology in literature.
Psychological fiction.
Literature.
Literature, Modern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Litterature.
Psychologie dans la litterature.
Psychological fiction > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Patrick White is a man divided: one part of him strives for permanence, surety, the ideal, while knowing the contingent, temporal realm he inhabits must inevitably undermine such striving. The desire, and the knowledge of its futility, leads him into a misanthropic devaluation of human creative possibility and, complementarily, into the arbitrary use of imposed symbolic resolutions directed to an elect who can ""see"". It has been this part of White, largely, that criticism has been industrious in explicating, if not in quite the terms I have used above. But there is another part of White whic.
Physical Description:1 online resource (175 pages).
ISBN:9780889205925

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