The Great World

Randall, Don

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“…It is not my intention to investigate the real-life validity of this view of place and national identity, but it is important to note that these ideas form the basic framework from which Malouf examines the question of place and literature in Australia. The same narrative is also carried forward and labelled "Romantic" in academic studies of Malouf 's work, particularly regarding the aspect of a desire for a nation-forging mythology (Randall 2007), or literature's role in creating a closer connection to nature (Neilsen 1990).…”

Section: Romanticism Beyond Nature Beyond Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, there are over 24 variations on the term "Romanticism" used by scholars in relation to Malouf 's writing. These range from temporal modifiers such as "post-Romantic" (Neilsen 1996) or "post-industrial Romantic" (Randall 2007), through to markers of a qualitative relationship to Romanticism such as "Romantic doctrine" (Hamilton April 2001), and variations which are simply undecided, such as "not un-Romantic" (Randall 2007) or "proto or post-Romantic" (Buckridge 1994). This unwillingness to engage with the original term has led to a variation on a Regency dance, in which the writer touches hands with Romanticism before moving away to weave and hop with more attractive theoretical paradigms.…”

Section: Introduction Introduction Reading Irony In Watson and Malmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Barratt-Peacock¹

2020

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I am indebted to more people than I can acknowledge properly here, for even the smallest favours have such a deep impact on the long hard slog that is a PhD. But there are two groups of people to whom I owe a larger debt than most. Firstly, to my colleagues, particularly Hendrick for his support on this long climb and Annika for commiserations and biscuits. The second is the women who have supported me along the way with advice, good conversation, moral support, and endless patience. Thank you for everything Caroline, Birgit, Sabine, Katharina, and Petra. For too many people, a PhD can be a lonely endeavour. In my case, this was not so, not least because of the loving support of my husband Johannes with his endless ability to look interested hearing words like 'Romantic' or 'model' for the thousandth time. I am grateful for so many acts of kindness and the genuine interest and respect which I have experienced in the academic community throughout this journey. I am thankful to Robert Clarke for his willingness to supervise my thesis from the other side of the world and to Christoph Bode for stepping in without hesitation when someone was needed closer. I will not forget the kindness of Lynn McCredden who invited me to her home when I, a complete stranger and rookie taking my first steps into academia, asked for advice. I am also grateful for the support and empathy of my colleagues Christin and Sandra when I came to them with news of death and then with news of birth. Finally, my thanks go to all those involved in the research group "Modell Romantik" which has supported my research, both financially and intellectually. It has been an honour to deep dive into Romanticism at the same place it was brought into life by the early Romantics of Jena. The threads which have woven themselves into literature across the globe have so become the same threads that tie together my different lives and different homes here in Germany and in Australia. "If you are to be interested in Australian literature, it is not because it is some peculiar and exotic place like Africa, it is because it is another version of Europe which will tell you something about Europe. The changes we have made and the variation of it that we offer will tell you about yourselves, and that's why you might be interested in what we're doing. "-Malouf 1990 Framing Romanticism Poetry is dense, compact, and in the case of Watson and Malouf, its voice is a deeply personal one. While the line between poetry and prose becomes ever more blurred, poetry retains a certain musicality, a form of communication with the reader which slips out from under the sign, making it a mode which lends itself to reflection on the relationship of the self to the world and to language itself. This is an unashamedly Romantic standpoint, but it is a fitting one, considering that these relationships form the central concern of this book. The way that Romantic irony is modelled in Malouf and Watson's texts, both thematically and in function, reflects a heightened and even postmodern aware...

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Section: Romanticism Beyond Nature Beyond Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction Introduction Reading Irony In Watson and Malmentioning

confidence: 99%