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'This essay contends that the Australian novelist Patrick White (1912-1990) presents, in his novel The Solid Mandala (1966), a prototypical evocation of late modernity that indicates precisely why and how it was different from the neoliberal and postmodern era that succeeded it. Late modernity is currently emerging as a historical period, though still a nascent and contested one. Robert Hassan speaks of the 1950-1970 era as a period which, in its 'Fordist' mode of production maintained a certain conformity yet held off the commoditisation of later neoliberalism's 'network-driven capitalism'. This anchors the sense of 'late modernity,' that will operate in this essay, though my sense of the period also follows on definitions of the term established, in very different contexts, by Edward Lucie-Smith and Tyrus Miller.' (Author's introduction)
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The Solid Mandala and Patrick White’s Late Modernity
Transnational Literature
Subjects:
- The Solid Mandala 1966 single work novel
- Patrick White : A Life 1991 single work biography
- Remembering Patrick White : Contemporary Critical Essays 2010 selected work criticism
- After the Celebration : Australian Fiction 1989-2007 2009 selected work criticism
- Patrick White : Letters 1994 selected work correspondence
- Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction 1989 single work criticism
- Patrick White : Fiction and the Unconscious 1988 single work criticism
- Patrick White 1996 single work criticism
- Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait 1981 single work autobiography
- Literary Activists : Australian Writer-Intellectuals and Public Life 2009 multi chapter work criticism
- A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel
- Patrick White 2007 single work criticism
- Critical Essays on Patrick White 1990 anthology criticism prose extract biography interview review
- Tourmaline 1963 single work novel
- The Watch Tower 1966 single work novel
- The Acolyte 1972 single work novel
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow 1967 single work poetry
- The Vernacular Republic : Les Murray's Poetic Transcription of Popular Culture 1995-1996 single work criticism
- Patrick White's Fiction : The Paradox of Fortunate Failure 1986 single work criticism
- Riders in the Chariot 1961 single work novel
- The Rocks and Sticks of Words: Style, Discourse and Narrative Structure in the Fiction of Patrick White 1992 multi chapter work criticism criticism
- The Aunt's Story 1948 single work novel
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