LEADER 03170nam 22007453u 450 001 9910791954103321 005 20230721012928.0 010 $a1-78170-114-8 010 $a1-84779-185-9 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847791856 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085725 035 $a(EBL)1069504 035 $a(OCoLC)818847192 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000747063 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12342160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000747063 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10699182 035 $a(PQKB)11595702 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069504 035 $a(DE-B1597)659984 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847791856 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085725 100 $a20130418d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDavid Malouf /$fDon Randall 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary World Writers 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84779-603-6 311 $a0-7190-6832-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 330 $aDon Randall's comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity of his ethical concerns: for Malouf, human lives find their value in transformations, specifically in instances of self-overcoming that encounters with difference or otherness provoke. However, the book is fully aware of, and informed by, the quite ample body of criticism on Malouf, and thus provides 410 0$aContemporary World Writers 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 610 $aAustralian literature. 610 $aDavid Malouf. 610 $aencounters with difference. 610 $aethical concerns. 610 $ainternational writing. 610 $aotherness. 610 $apostcolonial writing. 610 $aself-overcoming. 610 $atransformations. 610 $aunity. 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a823 700 $aRandall$b Don$01478854 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791954103321 996 $aDavid Malouf$93694693 997 $aUNINA