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  • Author:agent David Malouf http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/malouf-david
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 On Experience
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'A short literary essay on the nature of experience.'--Provided by publisher.

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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

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Singing it Anew : David Malouf's Ransom Bernadette Brennan , 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)
On Ravishing Quartets Peter Craven , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 September 2008; (p. 12)
— Review of On Experience David Malouf , 2008 single work essay ; On Rage Germaine Greer , 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy Barrie Kosky , 2008 single work essay ; On Longing Blanche d'Alpuget , 2008 single work essay
Only Look, Only See Inga Clendinnen , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 38 2008; (p. 54-57)
— Review of On Experience David Malouf , 2008 single work essay
Substance Sandwiched in Baloney James Ley , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 August 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of On Longing Blanche d'Alpuget , 2008 single work essay ; On Rage Germaine Greer , 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy Barrie Kosky , 2008 single work essay ; On Experience David Malouf , 2008 single work essay
Four Colours Deep Richard King , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 August 2008; (p. 32)
— Review of On Experience David Malouf , 2008 single work essay ; On Rage Germaine Greer , 2008 single work essay ; On Longing Blanche d'Alpuget , 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy Barrie Kosky , 2008 single work essay
Books of Revelation Jane Sullivan , 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 David Malouf , 2008 single work essay ; On Longing Blanche d'Alpuget , 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy Barrie Kosky , 2008 single work essay ; On Rage Germaine Greer , 2008 single work essay
Experience. Cosmic Rapture, Transcendental Bliss. Diane Stubbings , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 August 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of On Ecstasy Barrie Kosky , 2008 single work essay ; On Experience David Malouf , 2008 single work essay
Four Colours Deep Richard King , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 August 2008; (p. 32)
— Review of On Experience David Malouf , 2008 single work essay ; On Rage Germaine Greer , 2008 single work essay ; On Longing Blanche d'Alpuget , 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy Barrie Kosky , 2008 single work essay
Substance Sandwiched in Baloney James Ley , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 August 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of On Longing Blanche d'Alpuget , 2008 single work essay ; On Rage Germaine Greer , 2008 single work essay ; On Ecstasy Barrie Kosky , 2008 single work essay ; On Experience David Malouf , 2008 single work essay
Only Look, Only See Inga Clendinnen , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 38 2008; (p. 54-57)
— Review of On Experience David Malouf , 2008 single work essay
Celebrity Writers Try Out Big Ideas Fiona Gruber , 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 Bernadette Brennan , 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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