Patrick White Beyond the Grave

Informationen zum Autor Ian Henderson is the Head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London and lectures in the Department of English Language and Literature. Anouk Lang is a lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century 'rediscovery' of Patrick White (1912-1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into 'world' modernism, queer literature, and the 'jittery' modernist impulses of contemporary culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Ian Henderson); Part I. Resurrected Papers; 1. The Evidence of the Archive (Margaret Harris and Elizabeth Webby); 2. Leichhardt and 'Voss' Revisited (Angus Nicholls); Part II. Many in One; 3. White's London (David Marr); 4. Elective Affinities: Manning Clark, Patrick White and Sidney Nolan (Mark McKenna); 5. 'Dismantled and Reconstructed': 'Flaws in the Glass' Re-Visioned (Georgina Loveridge); 6. Patrick White's Late Style (Andrew McCann); Part III. The Performance of Reading; 7. Patrick White's Expressionism (Ivor Indyk); 8. The Doubling of Reality in Patrick White's 'The Aunt's Story' and Paul Schreber's 'Memoirs of My Nervous Illness' (Aruna Wittman); 9. Desperate, Marvellous Shuttling: White's Ambivalent Modernism (Gail Jones); 10. 'Time And Its Fellow Conspirator Space': White's 'A Fringe of Leaves' (Brigid Rooney); Part IV. Queer White; 11. Knockabout World: Patrick White, Kenneth Williams and the Queer Word (Ian Henderson); 12. Queering Sarsaparilla: Patrick White's Deviant Modernism (Anouk Lang); Contributors; Index

Product details

• Authors: Ian Lang Henderson
• Assisted by: Ian Henderson (Editor), Anouk Lang (Editor), Lang Anouk (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781783083985
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-398-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form