Patrick White, Saul Bellow and the Problem of Literary Value
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8891112 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon During (0000-0003-2182-0668, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.371417c7bd |
| OpenAlex | W24104272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
â Patrick Whiteâ s fiction has been ambivalently received. For all its celebration, dissenters continue to insist on a gap between its reputation and its actual achievements. In this essay, I want to take a step towards strengthening our assessment of it through an analysis that I hope may also illuminate possibilities for literary judgement more widely. I will limit myself to a single novel, The Solid Mandala (1968), and to using a received if somewhat old-fashioned critical technique â comparison. In the spirit of literary criticism as it was developed by T.S.Eliot, F.R. Leavis and the New Critics in the first half of the twentieth century, I will place passages from The Solid Mandala alongside passages from Saul Bellowâ s Mr Sammlerâ s Planet.â (Authorâ s abstract)
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Criticism · Epistemology · Judgement · Literature · Mandala · Reputation · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Value (mathematics · White (mutation · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |