Patrick White Beyond the Grave: New Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781783083978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 220 str.

Anouk Lang;Ian Henderson

Opis

Patrick White (1912 1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australia s most celebrated writers. This book represents new work by an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe. White s centenary revived mainstream interest in White in Australia and included a major exhibition on his life at the National Library of Australia. So too did the discovery of a highly significant hoard of hitherto unknown papers which were released by White s literary executor Barbara Mobbs in 2006. The book aims to carry this momentum outwards to the rest of the world. The contributors research is lodged in forwards-oriented methodologies and expressed in accessible language. On the whole, the collection is notable for its acknowledgement of White s homosexuality in relation to the development of his literary style, in its consideration of the way his writing works on/with readers, and for its contextualizing of his life and oeuvre in relation to London and to London life. The title of the book reflects the effect on White scholarship of the newly discovered papers, the focus of numerous chapters on the farcical and knockabout qualities of White s work, and the contributors intention to inspire further work on White from a rising generation of scholars of twentieth-century literature beyond Australia."

Patrick White (1912-1990) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and remains one of Australias most celebrated writers. This book represents new work by an outstanding list of White scholars from around the globe. This collection of diverse and original essays is notable for its acknowledgement of Whites homosexuality in relation to the development of his literary style, in its consideration of the way his writing works on/with readers, and for its contextualizing of his life and oeuvre in relation to London and to London life.