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Based on papers on thirteen Commonwealth and American winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, delivered at a conference of the Institute for Commonwealth and American Studies in South India in 1996.
Dedication: For Adrian and Mariel.
Epigraph: Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. / More rich, more wise. - Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man.
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South Asia,South and East Asia,Asia,:Sterling Publishers,1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Discusses a number of different theoretical perspectives of previous White criticism and various readings of his works, and argues that a Bakhtinian approach, alerting readers to the polyphonic nature of the text, is a rewarding new approach to White's complex fiction.
