“RECLAIMING THE RUBBISH”: OUTCASTS, TRANSFORMATION AND THE TOPOS OF THE PAINTER-SEER IN THE WORK OF PATRICK WHITE AND DAVID MALOUF
Settled by white convicts and often by people with few prospects in the Old World, Australia was sometimes thought of negatively as a dumping ground of miscreants and ne’er-do-wells. This paper traces how, post-war, this perception was challenged in the fiction of Patrick White and David Malouf, whi...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Udine
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Le Simplegadi |
| Online Access: | https://le-simplegadi.it/article/view/1183 |