Patrick White

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…

The vivisector of the title is first and foremost the painter whose life story it relates, Hurtle Duffield. But it is also the creative artist…

The several Patrick White bibliographies, as well as the various critical accounts of his work, list his first book as The Ploughman and Other Poems…

The new series of 'Bibliographies of Australian Writers' recently launched by the Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, is one that could be very useful…

Beston points out literary affinities between White and Steinbeck, with particular reference to thematic similarities between Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven and White's first novel…

'What is Australian literary criticism?' asks Brian Kiernan in this latest volume in the Australian Writers and Their Work series. He defines it, for the…

Miss Dyce's account of Patrick White's play ends with the suggestion that Night on Bald Mountain 'could, however, be the forerunner of a masterpiece'. As…

The Writers and Critics series, published by Oliver and Boyd, includes a number of distinguished essays. Barry Argyle's study of Patrick White is not one…

It has often been suggested that Patrick White's stature as a novelist has never been adequately recognized. The Australianness of his material and the unAustralianness…

Examines the relationship of dreams (processes of conscious fantasy) and visions (experiences beyond a human level, i.e. something mystical) to the make-up of the novel’s…

In 1965, Southerly issued a special Patrick White number. This is now out of print. To satisfy continued requests, Professor G. A. Wilkes has decided…

In this essay I want to use Riders in the Chariot to suggest another way of reading the politics of White's modernism. The world of…

The significance of recurrent imagery in Patrick White's novels, not only as it contributes to a distinctive stylistic texture but also as a vehicle for…

In bringing Sydney and the Bush to function in a set of relations which are symbolic, [Patrick White's Voss] demonstrates that in place of…

McLaren responds to Sylvia Gzell's criticism of his reading of some symbols in Voss and Riders in the Chariot as 'sentimental' (Australian Literary Studies…

‘Patrick White’s fiction has been ambivalently received. For all its celebration, dissenters continue to insist on a gap between its reputation and its actual achievements…

Discusses a dramatic sketch (‘Peter Plover’s Party’) by Patrick White written for a performance in London.

This paper compares short stories by Patrick White and American John Cheever, arguing that their representations of suburbia and modernity show fundamentally different approaches to…

These new studies of Patrick White illustrate remarkably well the respective virtues of two contrasting critical approaches to literature. Professor Walsh, a past master of…