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'A short literary essay on the nature of experience.'--Provided by publisher.
Notes
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Epigraph: What fools we are! 'He has spent his life in idleness' we say, 'I have done nothing today'. What, have you not lived? That is not only the fundamental but the most honourable of your occupations.
Montaigne, Essays -
Epigraph: Armado: How hast thou purchased this experience?
Moth, his boy: By my penny of observation.
Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Singing it Anew : David Malouf's Ransom
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-12) 'In 2009 David Malouf's Ransom was published to great critical and popular acclaim. Ransom presents itself very simply as a beautiful story about (among other things) loss, love, vulnerability and storytelling. But what does it mean to talk about the beautiful in writing? Etienne Gilson argues that writing is a making before it is a knowing or willing, so its primary concern is not a truth to be known or a good to be willed. Its primary concern is beauty. This paper explores how the beautiful operates in, and structures, Ransom.' (Author's abstract)
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On Ravishing Quartets
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 September 2008; (p. 12)
— Review of On Experience 2008 single work essay ; On Rage 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy 2008 single work essay ; On Longing 2008 single work essay -
Only Look, Only See
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 38 2008; (p. 54-57)
— Review of On Experience 2008 single work essay -
Substance Sandwiched in Baloney
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 August 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of On Longing 2008 single work essay ; On Rage 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy 2008 single work essay ; On Experience 2008 single work essay -
Four Colours Deep
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 August 2008; (p. 32)
— Review of On Experience 2008 single work essay ; On Rage 2008 single work essay ; On Longing 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy 2008 single work essay
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Books of Revelation
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 July 2008; (p. 15) The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 July 2008; (p. 37)
— Review of On Experience 2008 single work essay ; On Longing 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy 2008 single work essay ; On Rage 2008 single work essay -
Experience. Cosmic Rapture, Transcendental Bliss.
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 August 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of On Ecstasy 2008 single work essay ; On Experience 2008 single work essay -
Four Colours Deep
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 August 2008; (p. 32)
— Review of On Experience 2008 single work essay ; On Rage 2008 single work essay ; On Longing 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy 2008 single work essay -
Substance Sandwiched in Baloney
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 August 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of On Longing 2008 single work essay ; On Rage 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy 2008 single work essay ; On Experience 2008 single work essay -
Only Look, Only See
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 38 2008; (p. 54-57)
— Review of On Experience 2008 single work essay -
Celebrity Writers Try Out Big Ideas
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 July 2008; (p. 12-13) -
It's On
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 88 no. 1 2008; (p. 54) -
Singing it Anew : David Malouf's Ransom
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-12) 'In 2009 David Malouf's Ransom was published to great critical and popular acclaim. Ransom presents itself very simply as a beautiful story about (among other things) loss, love, vulnerability and storytelling. But what does it mean to talk about the beautiful in writing? Etienne Gilson argues that writing is a making before it is a knowing or willing, so its primary concern is not a truth to be known or a good to be willed. Its primary concern is beauty. This paper explores how the beautiful operates in, and structures, Ransom.' (Author's abstract)
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On Experience