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

• Superior document: MUSE: Munich Studies in English Series ; v.45
• Author: Barratt-Peacock, Ruth.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: MUSE: Munich Studies in English Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)

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 problem of postcolonial place-making in their work.

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.