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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 899 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ENCOMIUM David Malouf.(Brief Article)
Author: Ihab Hassan
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 74Issue: 4Page: 710

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Title: What Dreams may Come: DAVID MALOUF'S DREAM STUFF.
Author: Peter Pierce
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 74Issue: 4Page: 750

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This digital document is an article from Australian Literary Studies, published by Australian Literary Studies on April 1, 2009. The length of the article is 8471 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Rereading David Malouf's Fly Away Peter: the great war, aboriginal dispossession, and the politics of remembering.(Critical essay)
Author: Peter Otto
Publication: Australian Literary Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2009
Publisher: Australian Literary Studies
Volume: 24Issue: 1Page: 35(17)

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 7988 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "A Delicate Business": DAVID MALOUF'S SHORTER PROSE.(Critical Essay)
Author: Paul Sharrad
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 74Issue: 4Page: 759

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on November 1, 2008. The length of the article is 653 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: David Malouf. The Complete Stories.(Book review)
Author: W.M Hagen
Publication: World Literature Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2008
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 82Issue: 6Page: 63(2)

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Title: Dreaming Wholeness: DAVID MALOUF'S NEW STORIES.
Author: John Scheckter
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 74Issue: 4Page: 740

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 7050 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Remembering inheritance: David Malouf and the literary cultivation of nation.(Essay)
Author: Brigid Rooney
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 90Page: 65(14)

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Title: DAVID MALOUF CHRONOLOGY.(Australian author)(Brief Article)
Author: David Draper Clark
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 74Issue: 4Page: 706

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Remembering Babylon, Fly Away Peter, Johnno, the Conversations at Curlow Creek, an Imaginary Life, the Great World. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Remembering Babylon is a book by David Malouf written in 1993. It won the inaugural IMPAC Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. The novel covers themes of isolation, language, relationships (particularly those between men), community and living on the edge (of society, consciousness, culture). Its themes evolve into a greater narrative of an English boy, Gemmy Fairley, who is marooned on a foreign land and is raised by a group of aborigines, natives to the land. When white settlers reach the area, he attempts to move back in the world of Europeans. As Gemmy wrestles with his own identity, the community of settlers struggle to deal with their fear of the unknown. Malouf's narrative voice is at once scattered and singular, skipping between perspectives on the same events, and forcing the reader to pay close attention to each character's rendering in order to arrive at the wholest truth possible. The magical-realism theme is cultivated in the exaggerated response of all the characters to mundane items: Gemmy surrenders to what he knows is a stick instead of a gun, because he attributes Lachlan's aiming it at him as a signal of the wariness of the other settlers. The men of the community are in an uproar over a stone that visiting aborigines (supposedly) pass off to Gemmy for no logical reason--only because they fear whatever knowledge the aborigines have garnered of the land. These settlers are the first whites to live on that soil, and view anything that is not white with an extreme wariness, not only of the physical land but the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1874945 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Australian Literary Studies, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6828 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Imagining transcendence: the poetry of David Malouf.
Author: Natalie Seger
Publication: Australian Literary Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 22Issue: 2Page: 146(14)

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This digital document is an article from Australian Literary Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on May 1, 1999. The length of the article is 6331 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: David Malouf is not a historical novelist, although Australian history provides a background to his novel 'The Great World.' The Latin poet Ovid and the French linguist Ferdinand Saussure agree that language divides and differentiates. People search for significant moments of national origin, but locating personal moments of origin is difficult. Much of the plot of Malouf's novel 'The Conversations at Curlow Creek' takes place in memory.

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Title: Origin, Identity and the Body in David Malouf's Fiction.
Author: Andrew Taylor
Publication: Australian Literary Studies (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 19Issue: 1Page: 3

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 7048 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Reimagining the Remembered: DAVID MALOUF AND THE MORAL IMPLICATIONS OF MYTH.(Critical Essay)
Author: Carolyn Bliss
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 74Issue: 4Page: 724

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In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses, came under severe criticism for The Art of Love, which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman’s mock-didactic elegy. In lyrical, irreverent English, he reveals love’s timeless dilemmas and Ovid’s enduring brilliance as both poet and cultural critic. ... Read more

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The Art of Love
It was not waht I expected but it is detailed enough to understand the content.I appreciate it considering when was was written.

Just have fun with it.
A seemingly tongue-in-cheek imitation didactic poem on seduction and love-making. The poem reads like an instruction manual, but Ovid uses the form of a love poem and numerous digressions to enhance the humour. However, he does make some strong points about how both sexes use deception in courtship (a woman's pleasure adds to the overall enjoyment of love-making, etc.) making one think that he wanted to educate while deflecting criticism by taking the humourous approach. It didn't work, apparently, as he was soon aftewards exiled.

Regarding James Michie's translation - this is an excellent form for this work. The translation respects the form of the original poem without adhering so strictly as to loose the free-wheeling fun of the message.A highly desirable English edition of this ancient work.

And there is nothing new under the sun...
Or at least, put it in a very positive way, that's what the smile on my face meant when I finished reading this beautiful piece written by Ovid during the first century A.D.; perhaps the "step by step" seduction handbook then and now, is even more remarkable by the fact that its wisdom applies the same in today's "complex" world.

The Art of Love or "Ars Amatoria" is no doubt the result of the life of a very well traveled and educated man, for he is one of those few who understands the ways (and mistery) of the feminine soul... by the same token, Ovid gives us both sides of the coin in this Roman's elegy: the ways of the male spirit in order to seduce women, and the step by step guide for women to seduce and keep men... in other words, there's nothing new under the sun, BUT, the ways we perceive and apply knowledge...

The love: the most coveted pearl!
Jim Capaldi was over inspired when wrote in the last strophe of his most emblematic theme: "Cause love is the high, high you can reach."

For all those people who have had the chance, the lucky and the fortune to get their couple and for the rest of them who never had the chance to construct a life's project with that special being, this text presents some clever observations about how the love must be cultivated, far from being imposed or begged.

The love, its implications, consequences and daily cares demand a virtue far beyond the patience is like a smart device of action and reaction that requires a wise flexibility, tolerance and profound knowledge of the human soul;"to think about us before myself" is a minuscule part of a complex web of feelings and personal livings of every member of the couple.

Don't let this classic book pass in front of you and acquire it as soon as you can.
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