David Malouf

‘In this essay I aim to acknowledge the efficacy of the liberal humanist discourse in Remembering Babylon, whilst interrogating some of its more problematic…

The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War…

Concluding a 2003 lecture series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the First Nations writer Thomas King says 'the truth about stories is that that's all…

Discusses a number of war novels which, rather than focussing on military conflicts, centre on the ways in which war has shaped Australian experience. Argues…

Too many people write poetry presuming to think they are wholly and solely poets: this is what fate has willed them to be to the…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the immigrant's experience in some of Malouf's fiction and poetry. What I am not trying to do…

Discusses Romantic transcendentalism in Malouf's writing, arguing that 'Malouf's sometimes ironic Romanticism combines with his postcolonialism to question Enlightenment and colonialist assumptions His postcolonial interest…

This examination of charismatic masculinity and the representation of gender in Malouf’s fiction concentrates on the short story collection Every Move You Make.

Remembering Babylon, with its strange and compelling story of Gemmy Fairley's negotiation between 'Australian' and 'Aboriginal' identities, is, like 'The Writing Lesson', simultaneously an…

David Malouf responds to a survey asking about his approach to war as a subject or vehicle for fiction, the challenges of doing so, the…

After the opening performance of Mer de Glace at the Sydney Opera House, the appearance of David Malouf and Richard Meale on stage was greeted…

Argues that a conception of Malouf's fiction as historical is simplistic. Malouf undertakes 'fictional revisitings of moments in Australian history—moments in which, in retrospect, significant…

Child's Play is entirely textually oriented, a novel which takes its own development as its subject, its own form as its entire reality. The analysis…

Discusses Malouf’s ‘elusive’ fiction in the context of his poetry, concentrating on the treatment of common developing concerns.

Focuses on English writers in Australia, and what these journeys mean 'in relation to the contested term "Australian modernism"'. 'In particular, I argue that the…

I propose in this paper to exercise the critic's prerogative (duty?) of articulating an artist's intuitions about his own work into a more formal and…

Malouf's choice of subject matter is not arbitrary. His story is one version of an archetypal Romantic story, whose particulars change according to the teller…

Brigid Rooney interviews David Malouf.

Discusses the 'revisionist' historical fiction of, among others, Rodney Hall, David Malouf and Robert Drewe, in the context of Australian historical fiction from its origins…

Discussing the maps, geographical images and geometric figures that abound in Malouf's work, Leer argues that geography provides Malouf with tropes through which to explore…