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Drawing on Bernd Mahr’s model theory, this volume introduces a new approach to Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. Focusing on two very different authors, David Malouf and the Indigenous poet Samuel Wagan Watson, this book highlights their similarities rather than their differences. I...
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oapen-20.500.12657-427752020-11-03T01:39:06Z Concrete Horizons: Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson Barratt-Peacock, Ruth Aboriginal poetry Australian identity Australian literature Australian Romanticism Barratt Bode Brisbane writing Christoph Concrete Contemporary Australian poetry David David Malouf Horizons Indigenous poetry Irony Malouf Michael Model theory Peacock Place-making Poetry Romantic Romantic irony Rücker Ruth Samuel Samuel Wagan Watson Spatial hermeneutics Suburban Australian literature City writing Wagan Watson bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry & poets Drawing on Bernd Mahr’s model theory, this volume introduces a new approach to Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. Focusing on two very different authors, David Malouf and the Indigenous poet Samuel Wagan Watson, this book highlights their similarities rather than their differences. It is the first book-length study dedicated specifically to each author’s poetic oeuvre. Comprehensive readings reveal that an ironic dialectic underpins how each poet writes from within a disjunct of culture and environment following colonisation, finding hope in dialogue and a productive process of negative assertion. The theoretical framing of Romanticism developed here effectively rehabilitates Romanticism as a productive paradigm in contemporary Australian poetry. 2020-11-02T10:12:12Z 2020-11-02T10:12:12Z 2020 book ONIX_20201102_9783631819630_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42775 eng MUSE: Munich Studies in English application/pdf n/a 9783631819630.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b17077 10.3726/b17077 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 45 292 Bern open access |
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Drawing on Bernd Mahr’s model theory, this volume introduces a new approach to Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. Focusing on two very different authors, David Malouf and the Indigenous poet Samuel Wagan Watson, this book highlights their similarities rather than their differences. It is the first book-length study dedicated specifically to each author’s poetic oeuvre. Comprehensive readings reveal that an ironic dialectic underpins how each poet writes from within a disjunct of culture and environment following colonisation, finding hope in dialogue and a productive process of negative assertion. The theoretical framing of Romanticism developed here effectively rehabilitates Romanticism as a productive paradigm in contemporary Australian poetry. |
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