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Concrete Horizons : Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson.

This book uses the model theory as a new way to approach Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. It explores a model of Romantic irony in the poetry of two contemporary Brisbane poets: David Malouf and the Indigenous author Samuel Wagan Watson. The ironic dialectic is applied to the probl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barratt-Peacock, Ruth.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:MUSE: Munich Studies in English Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements and Thanks
  • Contents
  • I. Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Reading Irony in Watson and Malouf : Content and Parameters
  • Framing Romanticism
  • Watson and Malouf : Finding Common Ground
  • II. Rethinking Romanticism
  • A bad Romance? Rehabilitating Romanticism in Australia
  • Australian Romanticism : A Brief History
  • Landscaping
  • Early Australian Romantic Poets?
  • Romanticism as Absence
  • Romanticism Beyond Nature , Beyond Nation
  • New Approaches to Romanticism : A Model of Romantic Irony
  • Language and Space
  • Romantic Irony
  • Irony: Rhetorical, Socratic, Romantic
  • Beyond Thought/Language Dualism
  • Ordo Inversus as Romantic Irony
  • Representing the Unrepresentable
  • Productive Negativity: The Ironic Dialectic
  • Irony Applied: The Subject in Australia
  • Model Theory: How Romanticism Continues and Adapts
  • Model Theory: A Pragmatic Alternative
  • What is a Model?
  • The Modelling Process
  • III. David Malouf
  • Malouf : An Author in Context
  • Malouf and the History Wars
  • Malouf : A Romantic?
  • A Poetics of Place
  • Water
  • Edges of the Nation
  • "Sheer Edge "
  • "At Deception Bay "
  • "Into the Blue "
  • "The Catch "
  • "This Day Under My Hand "
  • "An Ordinary Evening at Hamilton "
  • Communing with the Animal Other
  • "In the Sea's Giving "
  • "The Crab Feast "
  • "Pentecostal "
  • Water: Closing Remarks
  • Interiors
  • Fragments of the Social Self
  • "This Day Under My Hand "
  • "An Ordinary Evening at Hamilton "
  • Recollections of Childhood: Deconstructing the Indoor Self
  • "Interiors from a Childhood "
  • "Indoor Garden "
  • Inside Language
  • "Dot Poem, the Connections "
  • "In the Beginning "
  • The Wild Indoors
  • "The Year of the Foxes "
  • "Notes from a Menagerie "
  • "Footnote for a Bestiary ".
  • Interiors: Closing Remarks
  • (Sub)urban
  • Civil Beasts
  • "Dog Park "
  • "Bicycle "
  • "Typewriter Music "
  • Liminal Transcendence and Black Coffee
  • "Suburban "
  • "Towards Midnight "
  • "Windows "
  • "Earth Hour "
  • (Sub)Urban: Closing Remarks
  • Of Earth and Clay
  • Gardens of the Living Word
  • "Touching Earth "
  • "Cuisine "
  • "The Worm's-Eye View "
  • Gardens as Schelling's Living Word
  • Earth: Closing Remarks
  • The Body
  • "First Things Last "
  • "The Switch "
  • "Elegy: The Absences "
  • "Unholding Here "
  • "Afterword "
  • "Ode One "
  • Malouf 's Imaginary of Endless Becoming
  • IV. Watson : Moving Beyond Protest Poetry in the Second Generation
  • Framing the Indigenous Author
  • Watson: Labels and Indigenous Writing
  • Collected Volumes: Themes and Development
  • Australian-Aboriginal Literature: Context
  • Approaching Watson: Writer
  • Indigenous Writer
  • A Poet of the Second Generation
  • Writing in the Protest Tradition
  • "Labelled "
  • "In the Light of Two Fires "
  • "Enemy of the State "
  • "Cheap White-Goods at the Dreamtime Sale "
  • Beyond the Postcolonial: A Different Take on Irony
  • "Apocalyptic Quatrains: The Australian Wheat Board/Iraq Bribery Scandal"
  • Irony: Between the Universal and the Specific
  • Two Realities, One City
  • Narrating Reality : The Gothic and the Hyperreal in Watson
  • "The Dingo Lounge "
  • "The Crooked Men "
  • "Cribb Island "
  • "Capalaba "
  • "Die Dunkle Erde "
  • The Hyperreal
  • The Gothic
  • Aboriginal Gothic Opacity vs Watson's Glossaries
  • The Fantastic Is Reality
  • An Enmeshed Sacred: Layering Place in Watson's Work
  • "For the Wake and the Skeleton Dance "
  • "White Stucco Dreaming "
  • "A Bent Neck Black and Flustered Feather Mallee "
  • Ironic Contingency Through the Sacred
  • The Writer's Voice in the City
  • "Fly-Fishing in Woolloongabba ".
  • "The Writer's Suitcase "
  • Language: Beyond the Embrace of a Twisted Tongue
  • A Writer's Musings on Gastank Fumes
  • "Gasoline "
  • "Gastank Sonnets "
  • "After 2 a.m. "
  • Writing: A Bittersweet Necessity
  • "A Blackbird of My Mind "
  • "Blood and Ink "
  • "Musing: The Graveyard Shift "
  • Beyond Language's Limits
  • "Musing: The Graveyard Shift "
  • "Author's Notes #2 "
  • "Kangaroo Crossing "
  • The Abstract Transcendent
  • "Raindrops Fall in Vain "
  • "A Dead Man's Mouth Harp "
  • A New Way Forward
  • "Poetry on the Green Bridge"
  • "Stealing Kisses"
  • "Let's Talk"
  • Opening Up a Dialogue
  • V. Synthesis: The Actualisation of Romanticism in Contemporary Australian Poetry
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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