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'There is no clearer demonstration of the fact that reading is a social and historical act than the reception of Patrick White. The relationship between reader and writer, or reader and text, is never innocent, but reflects the social concerns of the time. With literature and literary analysis, it also reflects the concerns dominating the institutions of literary criticism. White's work entered Australian literary culture at a time when the country was experiencing a post-war nationalist resurgence, leading up to the establishment of a chair of Australian literature at Sydney University — the first such chair, and the belated recognition that Australia did have a literature, and, indeed, was experiencing a birth into respectability —just as hunger for an Australia literature of world stature was growing.
' (Introduction)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- The Aunt's Story 1948 single work novel
- Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait 1981 single work autobiography
- The Tree of Man 1955 single work novel
- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- Riders in the Chariot 1961 single work novel
- The Solid Mandala 1966 single work novel
- The Vivisector 1970 single work novel
- The Eye of the Storm 1973 single work novel
- A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel
- The Twyborn Affair 1979 single work novel
- The Hanging Garden 1981 single work novel