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First known date:
2000...
vol.
74
no.
4
Autumn
2000
of
World Literature Today
est. 1977
World Literature Today
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Includes a brief, illustrated chronology of Malouf's life and a brief bibliography of his works.
Notes
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Special issue on David Malouf to mark his becoming the 16th Laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, a biennial award sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, portraits, reproductions of paintings and dust-jackets of Malouf's books.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- A Writing Life : The 2000 Neustadt Lecture, single work autobiography prose (p. 701-05)
- Makingi"That a man should wonder", single work poetry (p. 705)
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Encomium : David Malouf,
single work
prose
A formal praise of Malouf from a member of the 2000 Neustadt Prize jury who successfully championed Malouf's candidacy.
- Reading Late at Campagnaticoi"A lighted room high up", single work poetry (p. 713)
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The Bread of Time to Come : Body and Landscape in David Malouf's Fiction,
single work
criticism
Examines Malouf's representations of the natural world, the human body and landscape as the site and the acting out of a transcendental relationship - a characteristic of Romanticism to be found in Malouf's fiction.
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Reimagining the Remembered : David Malouf and the Moral Implications of Myth,
single work
criticism
Examines the use and function of myth in Malouf's novels Remembering Babylon and An Imaginary Life. The author argues that there is a development in Malouf's deployment of myth, which in turn reflects his deepening understanding of the genre's moral ambiguities.
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Harland's Half Acre : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Australian,
single work
criticism
Contains the following sections: I. The Land Made Visible and Visitable; II. The Artist in Australia; III. Harland's Path to Self-Discovery; IV. Harland's Artistic Vision; V. Harland and the Larger World.
- An Essay on Angels (The Shorter Version)i"Have never seen one, but being", single work poetry (p. 739)
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Dreaming Wholeness : David Malouf's New Stories,
single work
criticism
Discusses intersections of Western and Aboriginal perceptions and influences in Malouf's story collection.
- They Do Not Arrive in Time (No 52, The Disasters of War, Francisco Goya)i"the ground is patient", single work poetry (p. 749)
- Untitled : after Arseny Tarkovskyi"My life is a book", single work poetry (p. 749)
- Silencei"Silence broke my mouth", single work poetry (p. 749)
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What Dreams May Come : David Malouf's Dream Stuff,
single work
criticism
Argues that Malouf's story collection is an exploration fo the perplexities of individual perception, consciousness, and conscience rather than of other kinds of burdens of social, communal life, suggesting a 'testing stage of imaginative transition through which Malouf is presently working' (752). Dream Stuff 'challenges us most of all to confront a perception that now seems central to Malouf's work, a kind of gentle yet implacable skepticism about the reality of the social world' (757).
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'A Delicate Business' : David Malouf's Shorter Prose,
single work
criticism
Argues that Malouf's shorter fiction, 'being more inclined toward the telling image than towards discursiveness, is able more consciously to tap into his creative strengths and provide new insights into old experiences' (760).
- Snake Storyi"Death adder,", single work poetry (p. 769)
- Exuberance with Bloody Handsi"What do the Minoans teach us -", single work poetry (p. 769)
- Starsi"The oldest dream", single work poetry (p. 769)
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Armed Angels : Visible Darkness in Malouf and Golding,
single work
criticism
Explores the theme of belonging to two different worlds (the inner and outer world, or two cultures), and to have two sources of being, in Malouf's novel Remembering Babylon, and links it with some of William Golding's fiction, particularly the novel Darkness Visible.
- Carrickfergusi"The song of a wanderer", single work poetry (p. 778)
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Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of Greene on Capri : A Memoir 2000 single work biography ; (p. 830)
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