Concrete Horizons: Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson
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Ruth Barratt-Peacock is an Australian expatriate musicologist and a literary studies researcher. Her work ranges from Australian literature, Romanticism, and literature in the Anthropocene to ludo musicology, metal music, and cultural studies.
Drawing on Bernd Mahr’s model theory, this volume introduces a new approach to Romanticism in contemporary Australian literature. Focusing on two very different authors, David Malouf and the Indigenous poet Samuel Wagan Watson, this book highlights their similarities rather than their differences. It is the first book-length study dedicated specifically to each author’s poetic oeuvre. Comprehensive readings reveal that an ironic dialectic underpins how each poet writes from within a disjunct of culture and environment following colonisation, finding hope in dialogue and a productive process of negative assertion. The theoretical framing of Romanticism developed here effectively rehabilitates Romanticism as a productive paradigm in contemporary Australian poetry.
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.
Contemporary Australian poetry – Australian literature – Suburban Australian literature City writing – Model theory – Australian Romanticism – Romantic irony – Spatial hermeneutics – David Malouf – Samuel Wagan Watson – Indigenous poetry – Aboriginal poetry – Brisbane writing – Place-making – Australian identity
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Ruth Barratt-Peacock is an Australian expatriate musicologist and a literary studies researcher. Her work ranges from Australian literature, Romanticism, and literature in the Anthropocene to ludo musicology, metal music, and cultural studies.