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- Title
ATONEMENT AND THE CRIME OF SEEING: PATRICK WHITE'S, RIDERS IN THE CHARIOT.
- Authors
D'Costa, Gavin
- Abstract
The article explores the religious vision in Patrick White's novel "Riders in the Chariot." It has proposed an alternative against the readings from Jewish, Christian, and even secular non-religious perspectives. It is noted that the author brings together a synthetic vision in which three religious traditions are confirmed as complimentary. The author has respected the deep differences beween the traditions while drawing on the analogical commonality, as well as the redemptive value of suffering and the nature of an unfinished atonement within people's lives. It cites that the novel has been read in different religious ways and has received sensitive and illuminating attention to its Jewish mystical thematics.
- Subjects
RIDERS in the Chariot (Book : White); FICTION; WHITE, Patrick, 1912-1990; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; AUTHORSHIP; MANNERS &; customs; ATONEMENT in literature; AUTHOR-reader relationships; RELIGION
- Publication
Literature & Theology, 2008, Vol 22, Issue 2, p162
- ISSN
0269-1205
- Publication type
Literary Criticism