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 probl...

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.