Provisional Maps

PROVISIONAL MAPS

Critical Essays on David Malouf

Edited by Amanda Nettelbeck

The only critical study to cover all of Malouf's work up to 1994, this incisive collection of essays provides various perspectives on one of the world's major contemporary authors.

ISBN 0 86422 3000 5
$18.00



CONTENTS:

'Introduction' by Amanda Nettlebeck

I Identity, Culture And History

'The Evidence of Anecdote: Some Perspectives on the Poetry of David Malouf' by Thomas Shapcott

'Smoke Drifting up at Dawn: Individual Identity in the Poetry of David Malouf' by Dennis Haskell

'Interview with David Malouf' by Beate Josephi

'The Great World, History, and Two or One Other Things' by Andrew Taylor

'Yearnings of Grandsons for a Language the Dead Still Speak: Exile and the Loss of Language in David Malouf's Work' by Samar Attar

II The Mapping of Bodies and Space

'The Child in the (Queensland) House: David Malouf and Regional Writing' by Gillian Whitlock

'Edges of The Self: Topographies of the Body in the Writing of David Malouf' by Leigh Dale & Helen Gilbert

'Rewriting an Explorer Mythology: The Narration of Space in David Malouf's Work' by Amanda Nettlebeck

'Place, Possession, Power: The Politics of Space in David Malouf's Harland's Half Acre' by Maryanne Dever

III Questions of Form and Narrative

'David Malouf the Librettist' by Annie Patrick

'Elegies of Presence: Malouf, Heidigger and Language' by Paul Kavanagh

'Astonished by Everything: The Functions of Sublime Discourse in David Malouf's Fiction' by Patrick Buckridge

'Problematic History, Problems of Form: David Malouf's Remembering Babylon' by Peter Pierce