![]() ![]() Historicizing geographyĢ.1 The “geographical problem”: the safety of “recorded names”, the dread of blank spacesĢ.2 The “geographical problem”. Through this multi-level approach, the study demonstrates the variety of readings the novel stimulates and displays its rich intertextual and subtextual elements and links.ġ.1 Fictionalizing/ Fictionalized History: The Europeanization of Australiaġ.2 The “pastoral comedy” in the southern hemisphereġ.3 Historical explorers and fictional heroes: romanticizing modern “subjectivity”Ĭhapter 2: Maps/Mapping. It explores how the novel becomes subject to change, absorbing and contesting a variety of literary genres ranging from the ‘chronicle’ to the parable. ![]() Following an analysis of the protagonist’s geographical movement into the desert and his personal transformation, the study moves on to an exploration of the narrative itself. This multi-level critical aid allows the examination of four levels of exploration utilised by the author. ![]() The study employs a variety of critical apparatus including a post-structuralist and postcolonial approach, which also encompasses linguistics, sociolinguistics and comparative studies. This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Voss’s exploration of the interior of Australia, as a parable of the writer’s exploration of the Australian historical, social and cultural context of the 1950s. ![]()
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