Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction

Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction
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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9780889209596
ISBN-13 : 0889209596
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Book Synopsis Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction by : Laurence Steven

Download or read book Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction written by Laurence Steven and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1989-08-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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