David Malouf / Don Randall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randall, Don.

Series:

Contemporary World Writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malouf, David, 1934---Criticism and interpretation.

Malouf, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Don Randall's comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity of his ethical concerns: for Malouf, human lives find their value in transformations, specifically in instances of self-overcoming that encounters with difference or otherness provoke. However, the book is fully aware of, and informed by, the quite ample body of criticism on Malouf, and thus provides

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITOR FORWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; Contexts and intertexts; The poetry; The narratives of 'I'; Johnno; An Imaginary Life; Child's Play; 12 Edmondstone Street; Multiple worlds; Fly Away Peter; Harland's Half Acre; The Great World; Remembering Babylon; The Conversations at Curlow Creek; The short stories; Critical overview and conclusion; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781781701140

1781701148

9781847791856

1847791859

OCLC:

818847192