Patrick White Within the Western Literary Tradition

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Patrick White within the Western Literary Tradition </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a collection of essays demonstrating the strong influence of European British and American cultures on White's work. Representing the author's interest spanning over thirty-five years the essays expose White's evocation of dimensions other than material reality his preoccupation with epiphanies and mythmaking and his constant forging of a poetic style. The book also contains a series of analytical studies of the themes and characters in White's major novels (</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Aunt's Story</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Tree of Man</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Voss</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>).</span></p>