• ISBN13: 9788126918997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: August 20, 2014
• Pages: 210
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 190 grams

Patrick White: Critical Issues celebrates Patrick White’s birth centenary year 2012. Revisiting White years after his death suggests an endless interest of readers in him. His unending quest to address both the physical and the metaphysical, in order to unravel the unresolved mysteries of life, has triggered the sensibility of scholars and readers who return to him time and again. Both obscure and complex, a writer who expects to know the “extraordinary behind the ordinary”, Patrick White poses a challenge to readers who align with him in the journey to the unknown lands—the journey that opens up a world of reality and truth behind what apparently seems to be dull and dreary. This book attempts to understand various facets of White’s writings. It also offers new perceptions by establishing comparative connections with different disciplines worldwide. It will be useful for scholars and researchers working on White, readers interested in White and scholars of comparative literature.

Ishmeet Kaur is an Assistant Professor in the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. She specializes in Australian Literature and Post-colonial Studies. Her Ph.D. thesis is a Comparative Study of Patrick White’s novels and Guru Granth Sahib. Along with the mainstream Australian Literature, she has ventured into indigenous studies of Australia and India. She has been actively involved in research in Australian Literature and Sikh Studies. With several odd interests on her platter, she has been in education for past 10 years, involved in teaching various courses in English Literature, language and Managerial Communication; post-colonial subjects and Sikh Studies. Besides this, she also translates from Punjabi into English. She has translated works of Bushra Ezaj, a Pakistani writer and Veena Verma, a Punjabi diasporic writer, from Punjabi into English. She has published several papers in reputed journals and books and has presented papers in seminars and conferences in many countries.

• Foreword
• Preface
• Why Read Patrick White? A Personal Reflection
• Kirpal Singh
• Introduction
• Ishmeet Kaur
• 1. Jung, the Artist and Society and Patrick White
• Cynthia Vanden Dreisen
• 2. Alienation and Patrick White
• Kulwant Singh
• 3. Violence and the Sacred: Patrick White’s Radical Vision
• Lyn McCredden
• 4. Patrick White’s The Solid Mandala: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
• Shaikh Samad
• 5. The Androgyne Factor: The Ambiguity of Existence in Patrick White’s The Solid Mandala and The Twyborn Affair
• Krishna Barua
• 6. ‘Mind-Style’ in Patrick White’s The Eye of the Storm: A Study of Elizabeth Hunter
• Ranjita Pati
• 7. Constructing Third Space Epistemology: A Reworking on Patrick White’s Myth-making
• Diganta Bhattacharya
• 8. Multiculturalism and Aboriginal Activism in Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves
• V. Sangeetha
• 9. Possibility of Transcendental Experience in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man
• Kalpana Purohit
• 10. The Zany Fool? Representations in Raja Rao’s The Cat and Shakespeare and Patrick White’s The Solid Mandala
• Krishna Barua
• 11. The Way Beyond: Echoes of the Indian Religio-spiritual Tradition in Patrick White’s Mystic Vision
• Gursharan Aurora
• 12. Literary Imagination across Boundaries: A Comparative Study of Guru Granth Sahib and Patrick White
• Ishmeet Kaur
• Contributors