03170nam 22007453u 450 991079195410332120230721012928.01-78170-114-81-84779-185-910.7765/9781847791856(CKB)2560000000085725(EBL)1069504(OCoLC)818847192(SSID)ssj0000747063(PQKBManifestationID)12342160(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000747063(PQKBWorkID)10699182(PQKB)11595702(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085744(MiAaPQ)EBC1069504(DE-B1597)659984(DE-B1597)9781847791856(EXLCZ)99256000000008572520130418d2007|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrDavid Malouf /Don RandallManchester Manchester University Press20071 online resource (241 p.)Contemporary World WritersDescription based upon print version of record.1-84779-603-6 0-7190-6832-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; WDon 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 providesContemporary World WritersEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCAustralian literature.David Malouf.encounters with difference.ethical concerns.international writing.otherness.postcolonial writing.self-overcoming.transformations.unity.EnglishLanguages & LiteraturesEnglish Literature823Randall Don1478854AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910791954103321David Malouf3694693UNINA