SOURCE: “The Rhetoric of Patrick White's ‘Down at the Dump’,” in Bards, Bohemians, and Bookmen, edited by Leon Cantrell, University of Queensland Press, 1976, pp. 281-88.
In the following essay, Wilson praises White's short story “Down at the Dump,” asserting that it “demonstrates the superb adroitness with which White can modulate his discourse among many functions—satiric, compassionate, speculative—and give it a dimension that is metaphysical, even religious, in its range.”
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