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1 3 y separately published work icon David Malouf and the Poetic : His Earlier Writings Yvonne Smith , Amherst : Cambria Press , 2017 12538352 2017 multi chapter work criticism

'This study examines the earlier writings of celebrated Australian writer David Malouf, who was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award, and the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

'This book investigates his earlier writings to uncover what the terms “poetic”, “poetic imagination” and “inner and outer ways” imply for his development as a writer. Making use of some of his correspondence, diaries, and drafts of work-in-progress, Yvonne Smith takes into fuller account the way his works relate to each other and to the circumstances in which they were written.

'By investigating what “poetic imagination” might mean across the first decades when he was finding his way into a writer’s vocation, this sturdy reaps fresh insights into the nature of David Malouf's creativity—its tensions, struggles and moments of breakthrough, as well as its potential limitations. Finding what he could not do (or did not want to do) shapes strongly what he wants to achieve by the mid 1980s when his published works are becoming better known.

'Such considerations are touched on in earlier studies, yet have been sidelined by more recent criticism informed by postcolonial perspectives, debates about myths of origins and other Australian nation-based agendas. That Malouf has played a part, not only as a writer but as a public intellectual, in what Brigid Rooney terms his “consistent cultivation of nation” adds to this trajectory in his literary career. However, there has been less attention to Malouf’s development as a writer—its transnational dimensions, for instance, as he finds his vocation through hybrid family cultures and living for many years between Australia and Europe. It is helpful that discussion is increasingly balanced by broader views of what “Australian” literature might encompass, of global connections in “worlds within” national narratives, together with consideration of notions of “world literature” and a fluid “transnation” that exceeds boundaries of the state.' (Abstract)
1 David Malouf : The Long Breath of the Young Writer Yvonne Smith , 2014 single work single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 2 2014; 'Malouf's juvenilia and early adult writing have not yet received scholarly attention. While briefly considering five of his short stories published between 1948 and 1955, this article argues that themes that stretch across the 'longer breath' of his works, such as a character's struggle for survival and quest for happiness, are apparent from the time of his schoolboy writing just after World War II. The kinds of life-accounting that Malouf grew up with may have influenced the narrative forms with which the young writer experimented, a view of juvenilia put forward by Alexander (2005) and Eakin (1999). The influence of cinema and modernist authors becomes apparent as his enters his twenties, together with the personal 'writing school' he discovered in reading Sean O'Faolain's 'The Short Story'. A reassessment is needed of the general view that Malouf is a poet first who came later to prose, given the evidence of these carefully crafted stories.' (Publication abstract)
1 Telling Stories at the Permeable Borders of the Human in David Malouf's Ransom Yvonne Smith , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: What is the Human? : Australian Voices from the Humanities 2012; (p. 154-169)
1 y separately published work icon David Malouf's Ransom Insight Text Guides – Ransom Yvonne Smith , Elsternwick : Insight Publications , 2010 6897760 2010 single work criticism

'Text guide with detailed analysis of plots, characters and theme of David Malouf's Ransom. ' (Source: Libraries Australia)
1 Beauty's Clear, Round Eye Yvonne Smith , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , no. 4 2009;
— Review of Ransom David Malouf , 2009 single work novel
1 Hunter or Hunted? David Malouf's Poetic of the Human and Inhuman Yvonne Smith , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 1 2009; (p. 167-181)

'The expression of the poetic imaginary in recent decades in the poetry and prose of David Malouf has explored the inversion of anthropocentric hierarchies of life forms while probing the perceived boundaries of the human. At the same time as it appears to offer a re-balancing of power between what has been traditionally viewed as 'human' and 'animal', Malouf's work often invokes an aggressive hunter-hunted relationship that would seem to work against any notion of a surrender of control by a dominant human species. This paper will investigate how this ambivalence, often troubled by an awareness of the writer's capacity for both creativity and deception, is figured and refigured in several of his works since he commenced publication in the 1960s.'
1 y separately published work icon Brightness under Our Shoes : The Redress of the Poetic Imagination in the Poetry and Prose of David Malouf, 1960-1982 Yvonne Smith , 2008 Z1604899 2008 single work thesis 'This study investigates the poetic foundation of David Malouf's poetry and prose published from 1960 to 1982. Its purpose is to extend reading strategies so that the nature of his poetic and its formative influence are more fully appreciated. Its thesis is that Malouf explores and tests with increasing confidence and daring a poetic imagination that he believes must meet the demands of the times. Malouf's work is placed in relation to Wallace Stevens' belief that the poetic imagination should "push back against the pressure of reality", a view discussed by Seamus Heaney in 'The Redress of Poetry'. Malouf's work shows the influence not only of Stevens but also Rilke and contemporary American poetry of "deep image". The Australian context of Malouf's work is considered in relation to Judith Wright's essay 'The Writer and the Crisis' and the poetry of Malouf's contemporaries. Details of the manuscript development of his first four novels show Malouf's steps towards a clearer representation of his holistic, post-romantic vision. His correspondence with the poet Judith Rodriguez provides useful insights into his purposes. Theories and research about brain functions, the nature of intelligence and learning provide an important international context in the 1960s and 1970s, given Malouf's interest in how meaning forms from perception and experience. The thesis offers a model of poetic learning that highlights the interplay of dialectically opposed ways of forming meaning and points to the importance for Malouf of holding diverse states of mind together through the poetic imaginary.' from Author's abstract http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5139 sighted 14/7/2009
1 In the Beginning : David Malouf's An Imaginary Life Yvonne Smith , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 2 2005; (p. 160-174) Discusses Malouf's account of the composing of the novel in late 1976 and considers the implications of changes, particularly as they relate to the title of the novel which was changed only late in the piece from its working version 'Letter from Pontus'. The article draws on Malouf's diaries and letters and the various manuscript versions of the novel held in the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
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