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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Red Hill South, Mornington Peninsula (Inland), Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne, Victoria,:Red Hill Press , 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Novelist and the Modern World Patrick White : The Novelist and the Modern World, Brian Kiernan , single work criticism (p. 1-23)
Note: With title: The Novelist and the Modern World
The Politics of Modernism, Michael Wilding , single work criticism
'There is no doubt about the achievement of Patrick White (1912-90). The substantial corpus of books is there - twelve novels, three collections of stories, the plays, the autobiography. He is an Australian writer who is known internationally. But though he is well known, when we come to ask what he is known for, it is not so easy to get a succinct answer. What are his novels about? Are they about anything other than themselves? To define what White is we have to begin by defining what he is not; and this leads immediately into the nature of modernism. For White is the great Australian modernist. And modernism as an artistic movement is very much a system of exclusions. Much of the impulse of modernism was a denial of preceding traditions and a refusal of certain possibilities of continuity. The way in which modernism most immediately proclaimed itself was in its refusal of what had been the dominant nineteenth century mode of realism. If modernism was to be new, then it had to deny the existing, make it seem old and outdated. So that concern with the knowable, with recognizable psychological motivation, with the inventory of named objects, with causality and morality, is abandoned.'  (Introduction)
(p. 24-33)
Woman As Seeker in Patrick White's Fiction, Carolyn Bliss , single work criticism (p. 34-48)
A Properly Appointed Humanism : Australian Culture and the Aborigines in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves, Veronica Brady , single work criticism (p. 49-62)
Note: With title: A Properly Appointed Humanism? A Fringe of Leaves and the Aborigines
A Search for a New Ethic : White's A Fringe of Leaves, David J. Tacey , single work criticism (p. 63-72)
Note: With title: A Search for a New Ethic
The Selfish Eye : Self and Circles in The Eye of the Storm, Mary-Ellen Ryan , single work criticism (p. 73-91)
Queen Lear Down Under : The Eye of the Storm, A. M. McCulloch , single work criticism (p. 92-105)
The Significance of Christian Myth Structures in Voss, Joan Newman , single work criticism (p. 106-117)
In the Lap of the Land : Misogyny and Earth-Mother Worship in The Tree of Man, David J. Tacey , single work criticism (p. 118-137)
Allegories of Fiction in Patrick White's Early Novels, Rick Wallach , single work criticism (p. 138-148)

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Works about this Work

An Absence of Partisanship Ian Syson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 1 1997; (p. 94-101)

— Review of The 1890s : Australian Literature and Literary Culture 1996 anthology criticism biography poetry ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction Peter Pierce , 1995 single work criticism ; Australian Poetic Satire Dennis Haskell , 1995 selected work criticism ; Bio-Fictions : Brian Matthews, Drusilla Modjeska and Elizabeth Jolley Helen Thomson , 1994 selected work criticism ; Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Patrick White Simon During , 1996 single work criticism ; Arthur's Dream : The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White Michael Giffin , 1996 single work criticism ; 'And What Books Do You Read?' : New Studies in Australian Literature 1996 anthology biography short story extract criticism
Warm Comfort Zone Ludmilla Forsyth , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 144 1996; (p. 83-86)

— Review of Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction Peter Pierce , 1995 single work criticism ; Writing the Colonial Adventure : Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914 Robert Dixon , 1995 single work criticism ; Judith Wright Jennifer Strauss , 1995 single work criticism
White Essays Implicate the Reader Geoff Sharrock , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 64-65)

— Review of Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography
An Absence of Partisanship Ian Syson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 18 no. 1 1997; (p. 94-101)

— Review of The 1890s : Australian Literature and Literary Culture 1996 anthology criticism biography poetry ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction Peter Pierce , 1995 single work criticism ; Australian Poetic Satire Dennis Haskell , 1995 selected work criticism ; Bio-Fictions : Brian Matthews, Drusilla Modjeska and Elizabeth Jolley Helen Thomson , 1994 selected work criticism ; Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Patrick White Simon During , 1996 single work criticism ; Arthur's Dream : The Religious Imagination in the Fiction of Patrick White Michael Giffin , 1996 single work criticism ; 'And What Books Do You Read?' : New Studies in Australian Literature 1996 anthology biography short story extract criticism
White Essays Implicate the Reader Geoff Sharrock , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 64-65)

— Review of Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography
Warm Comfort Zone Ludmilla Forsyth , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 144 1996; (p. 83-86)

— Review of Prophet from the Desert : Critical Essays on Patrick White 1995 anthology criticism biography ; Australian Melodramas : Thomas Keneally's Fiction Peter Pierce , 1995 single work criticism ; Writing the Colonial Adventure : Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914 Robert Dixon , 1995 single work criticism ; Judith Wright Jennifer Strauss , 1995 single work criticism
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