Review of Studies in the Recent Australian Novel' ed. K.G. Hamilton, *Patrick White: A Critical Symposium eds. R. Shepherd and K. Singh, and The Peacocks and the Bourgeoisie: Ironic Vision in Patrick White's Shorter Fiction by David Myers
Abstract
To read this set of books in England in 1980is to be carried back across the years as well as the miles. We have here a full-length monograph on Patrick White's shorter fiction: the collected papers of a symposium devoted entirely to White's writings: and an extensive set of essays on sixteen Australian novels, only two of which were published before I960. ... Twenty years of development in the literature itself is no subject for a review. But these three works of criticism may typify something of what we have achieved, over twenty years, as servants of that literature.
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Published 1 May 1980 in Volume 9 No. 3. Subjects: Patrick White.
Cite as: Burrows, J.. ‘Review of Studies in the Recent Australian Novel' ed. K.G. Hamilton, *Patrick White: A Critical Symposium eds. R. Shepherd and K. Singh, and The Peacocks and the Bourgeoisie: Ironic Vision in Patrick White's Shorter Fiction by David Myers.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, 1980, doi: 10.20314/als.1f5fa9a64a.