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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Patrick White beyond the Grave : New Critical Perspectives
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Contents

* Contents derived from the New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,:Anthem Press , 2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Ian Henderson , single work criticism (p. 1-13)
The Evidence of the Archive, Margaret Harris , Elizabeth Webby , single work criticism

'Harris and Webby give an overview of the newly discovered notebooks and manuscripts enhanced by their long experience researching White's writing, and their thorough examination of the 'new' collection's breadth and scope.' (Introduction 7)

 (p. 17-34)
Leichhardt and Voss Revisited, Angus Nicholls , single work criticism

In this essay Angus Nicholls gives a 'new reading of the German romanticism in Voss (1957)' [and] 'provides an inspiring example of what practised hands can do with the hoard.' (Introduction 7)

 (p. 35-63)
Patrick White's London, David Marr , single work essay (p. 67-80)
Elective Affinities Manning Clark, Patrick White and Sidney Nolan, Mark McKenna , single work criticism

'Mark McKenna traces the ups and downs of another queer relationship, the oftentimes unreciprocated love of Australia's 'great' historian Manning Clark for the visionary he saw in White. He shows how Clark's monumental multi-volume History of Australia expresses greater allegiance to the preoccupations of Australia's 'elite' mid-century writers and artists, notably White and Sidney Nolan, than to the work of Clark's contemporaries in the academic discipline of history.' (Introduction 7-8)

 (p. 81-100)
'Dismantled and Re-Constructed' : Flaws in the Glass Re-visioned, Georgina Loveridge , single work criticism

'...Georgina Loveridge begins a more overt dismantling of our understanding of White in the wake of his own late re-envisioning of his work. The chapter, then, zeroes in on the potential for critical collapse threatened (or perhaps promised) in the preoccupation with jitters, tremblings, contradictory times, ambivalence, madnesses, revisions and disconcerting revelations in nearly all our chapters. She reads Flaws as a treatise on the nature of truth with White extending a continuous dismantling of his own symbolic apparatus and offering a blueprint for re-reading hes entire work.' (Introduction 8)

 (p. 101-115)
Patrick White's Late Style, Andrew McCann , single work criticism
'...Andrew McCann shows how White's, and our, minor quakes find full expression in Memoirs of Many in One (1986): in hilarity not tragedy. He argues that over the course of his career, White's impulse is towards the farcical collapse of signification which in itself can be figured as a revelatory path to non-revelatory non-understanding. (Introduction 8)
 (p. 117-128)
Patrick White's Expressionism, Ivor Indyk , single work criticism
'In 'Patrick White's Expressionism', Ivor Indyk identifies White's exaggeration of small, complex emotional jitters, placing his in the context of both an expressive mode of Australian literature and modernism at large, describing (with eloquent self-reflexivity) the experience of of reading a Patrick White novel', affording insight thereby also into the significance of material objects in White's writing.' (Introduction 8)
 (p. 131-140)
The Doubling of Reality in Patrick White's The Aunt's Story and Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Aruna Wittmann , single work criticism
'This chapter reads two accounts of madness from different discursive fields alongside one another. It looks at how these accounts - one from a fictional text, The Aunt's Story (1948) by Patrick White, and the other from a memoir, Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903) - share common features...' (Author's introduction 141)
 (p. 141-153)
Desperate, Marvellous Shuttling : White's Ambivalent Modernism, Gail Jones , single work criticism
'Gail Jones...brings Theodor Adorno's characterisation of the post-war era, T.J. Clark's thoughts on modernist visual imagery and Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project into dialogue with White's post-war novel, The Aunt's Story, providing a deeply insightful mediation on its infamous middle section, the 'Jardin Exotique', to reassess the controversial spiritualism of White's work. (Introduction 9)
 (p. 155-162)
'Time and Its Fellow Conspirator Space' : Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves, Brigid Rooney , single work criticism
'...Brigid Rooney explores what she refers to as the 'chronotopic system' of the narative in White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976). (Introduction 9)
 (p. 163-177)
Knockabout World : Patrick White, Kenneth Williams and the Queer Word, Ian Henderson , single work criticism
'...Henderson builds on McKenna's comparative biography and on queer theoretical approaches to White's writing, venturing a new interpretation of White's linguistic experimentation via a historical approach.' (Introduction 9)
 (p. 181-192)
Queering Sarsaparilla : Patrick White's Deviant Modernism, Anouk Lang , single work criticism
'...Anouk Lang demonstrates how, now a more overt scholarly exploration is 'out' it can contribute to understandings of modernism's global reach.' (Introduction 10)
 (p. 193-204)
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