Patrick White: Novelist as Prophet

Authors

  • George Watt

Abstract

"Prophets with Honour"; " ... Yearning for Sainthood"; " ... Confessions of St Patrick", "Glabrous Shaman or Centennial Park's Very Own Sainl...?" - all extracts from journal titles about Patrick White, the very terms of which arc out of kilter with most definitions of literary modernism. According to popular perception in Academe, Western literature apparently ceased to bother about God, faith or transcendence after 1900. This is not true of White.
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Religion, Literature and the Arts Project: Conference Proceedings of the Australian International Conference 1994

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