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'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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Epigraph: 'The creator in art is he who discovers a new analogate of the beautiful, a new way in which the radiance of form can shine on matter.' - Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism
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Singing it Anew : David Malouf's Ransom
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Subjects:
- Ransom 2009 single work novel
- Troy Revisited : Homer's Iliad and David Malouf's Ransom 2009 single work criticism
- 12 Edmondstone Street 1985 selected work autobiography essay
- Poems 1959-1989 1992 selected work poetry
- Made in England : Australia's British Inheritance 2003 single work essay
- An Imaginary Life : A Novel 1978 single work novel
- Harland's Half Acre 1984 single work novel
- Imagining the Real : Australian Writing in the Nuclear Age 1987 anthology poetry short story drama prose criticism biography
- On Experience 2008 single work essay
- Ethical Investigations : Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics 2008 selected work criticism
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