Coincidence or Analogue? - Patrick White's "Prufrock"

Title
Coincidence or Analogue? - Patrick White's "Prufrock"
Publication Date
1999
Author(s)
Ryan, John S
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:18094
Abstract
Many readers have found Patrick White's second published novel, the very English 'The Living and the Dead' (1941:rpt. 1962), to be peculiarly unsatisfactory. There are several reasons for this, including its perhaps excessive debts to French literature, the particular period of its gestation - the years between Munich and the Second World War - and the strong politico-social conscience of that time. Another is the often ignored fact that so much in the text is strongly echoic if not actually parodic of both T. S. Eliot's highly influential early poems, in particular of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1910, 1916) and of 'The Waste Land' (1922), the one essential poetic document of post-war Europe in decay.
Link
Citation
Notes & Furphies (42), p. 4-6
ISSN
0156-806X
1833-6027
1447-8986
Start page
4
End page
6

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