TY - GEN AU - Barratt-Peacock,Ruth TI - Concrete Horizons: Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson SN - b17077 PY - 2020/// CY - Bern PB - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group KW - Literary studies: from c 1900 - KW - bicssc KW - Literary theory KW - Literary studies: poetry & poets KW - Aboriginal poetry KW - Australian identity KW - Australian literature KW - Australian Romanticism KW - Barratt KW - Bode KW - Brisbane writing KW - Christoph KW - Concrete KW - Contemporary Australian poetry KW - David KW - David Malouf KW - Horizons KW - Indigenous poetry KW - Irony KW - Malouf KW - Michael KW - Model theory KW - Peacock KW - Place-making KW - Poetry KW - Romantic KW - Romantic irony KW - Rücker KW - Ruth KW - Samuel KW - Samuel Wagan Watson KW - Spatial hermeneutics KW - Suburban Australian literature City writing KW - Wagan KW - Watson N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42775/1/9783631819630.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26156 ER -