03334nam 22008173u 450 991095532070332120240313074138.0978178170114017817011489781847791856184779185910.7765/9781847791856(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(Perlego)1526520(EXLCZ)99256000000008572520130418d2007|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrDavid Malouf /Don Randall1st ed.Manchester Manchester University Press20071 online resource (241 p.)Contemporary World WritersDescription based upon print version of record.9781847796035 1847796036 9780719068324 0719068320 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 Don1811715AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910955320703321David Malouf4363755UNINA