White, Patrick

White’s professions of his sexuality can be seen as attesting to the intertwined, if sometimes conlicting, impulses to confess aspects of one’s private life, and to control one’s public image, that structure the contemporary mode of literary celebrity. His professions…

It is difficult to overstate the importance ofthis work as one ofthe first major volumes to address the idea ofthe sacred in post-World War II Australian literature. It is ambitious, setting the ambitions of literature itself into a scholarly framework…

The works of Patrick White have attracted more critical commentary than those of any other Australian writer. Since his death there has been a lull. It is a surprise then to see a flagship suddenly sailing into this silent sea…

Many critics of Patrick White, noting the obvious archetypal content of his works, have claimed that the novelist has made conscious use of Jung's ideas and archetypes. A. P. Riemer, for instance, has said that both The Tree of Man…

Critical focus on Patrick White's fiction has recently intensified. Contemporary authors, too, are looking back at White with admiration: Penguin Classics has begun to republish his fiction, with Thomas Keneally providing the introduction to Voss and J.M. Coetzee that to…

Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays includes twelve essays based on papers delivered at a symposium of the same title, held in Sydney in May 2007. In their introduction, the editors refer to the collection as 'the first major study…