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III. David Malouf Concrete Horizons: Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson MUSE: MUNICH STUDIES IN ENGLISH MÜNCHENER SCHRIFTEN ZUR ENGLISCHEN PHILOLOGIE Edited by / Herausgegeben von Christoph Bode and / und Ursula Lenker VOL. 45 MUSE: MUNICH STUDIES IN ENGLISH Ruth Barratt-Peacock MÜNCHENER SCHRIFTEN ZUR ENGLISCHEN PHILOLOGIE Edited by / Herausgegeben von Christoph Bode and / und Ursula Lenker Concrete Horizons: Romantic Irony in the VOL. 45 Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available online at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Zugl.: Jena, Univ., Diss., 2019 The project was undertaken at the research group Modell Romantik: Variation, Reichweite, Aktualität generously financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 250805958 / GRK2041 Cover illustration: Stunning city view of Brisbane in Australia © iStock by Getty Images Printed by CPI books GmbH, Leck 27 ISSN 2364-088X ISBN 978-3-631-81268-6 (Print) · E-ISBN 978-3-631-81963-0 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-81964-7 (EPUB) · E-ISBN 978-3-631-81965-4 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b17077 Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © Ruth Barratt-Peacock, 2020 Peter Lang – Berlin · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available online at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. For Gudrun For the lending and giving of books Zugl.: Jena, Univ., Diss., 2019 which is the loveliest act of kindness The project was undertaken at the research group Modell Romantik: Variation, Reichweite, Aktualität generously financed by the Acknowledgements and Thanks German Research Foundation (DFG) – 250805958 / GRK2041 I am indebted to more people than I can acknowledge properly here, for even the Cover illustration: Stunning city view of Brisbane in Australia smallest favours have such a deep impact on the long hard slog that is a PhD. But © iStock by Getty Images there are two groups of people to whom I owe a larger debt than most. Firstly, to my colleagues, particularly Hendrick for his support on this long climb and Printed by CPI books GmbH, Leck Annika for commiserations and biscuits. The second is the women who have 27 supported me along the way with advice, good conversation, moral support, and ISSN 2364-088X endless patience. Thank you for everything Caroline, Birgit, Sabine, Katharina, ISBN 978-3-631-81268-6 (Print) · E-ISBN 978-3-631-81963-0 (E-PDF) and Petra. E-ISBN 978-3-631-81964-7 (EPUB) · E-ISBN 978-3-631-81965-4 (MOBI) For too many people, a PhD can be a lonely endeavour. In my case, this was DOI 10.3726/b17077 not so, not least because of the loving support of my husband Johannes with his endless ability to look interested hearing words like ‘Romantic’ or ‘model’ for the thousandth time. I am grateful for so many acts of kindness and the gen- uine interest and respect which I have experienced in the academic community Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution throughout this journey. I am thankful to Robert Clarke for his willingness to CC-BY 4.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit supervise my thesis from the other side of the world and to Christoph Bode for https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ stepping in without hesitation when someone was needed closer. I will not forget © Ruth Barratt-Peacock, 2020 the kindness of Lynn McCredden who invited me to her home when I, a com- plete stranger and rookie taking my first steps into academia, asked for advice. I am also grateful for the support and empathy of my colleagues Christin and Peter Lang – Berlin · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien Sandra when I came to them with news of death and then with news of birth. This publication has been peer reviewed. Finally, my thanks go to all those involved in the research group “Modell www.peterlang.com Romantik” which has supported my research, both financially and intellectually. It has been an honour to deep dive into Romanticism at the same place it was brought into life by the early Romantics of Jena. The threads which have woven themselves into literature across the globe have so become the same threads that tie together my different lives and different homes here in Germany and in Australia. Contents I. Introduction .................................................................................................. 15 Reading Irony in Watson and Malouf: Content and Parameters ................. 15 Framing Romanticism ....................................................................................... 21 Watson and Malouf: Finding Common Ground ........................................... 25 II. Rethinking Romanticism A bad Romance? Rehabilitating Romanticism in Australia .......... 31 Australian Romanticism: A Brief History ....................................................... 31 Landscaping ........................................................................................................ 36 Early Australian Romantic Poets? .................................................................... 36 Romanticism as Absence ................................................................................... 40 Romanticism Beyond Nature, Beyond Nation ............................................... 41 New Approaches to Romanticism: A Model of Romantic Irony ..... 45 Language and Space ........................................................................................... 45 Romantic Irony ................................................................................................... 49 Irony: Rhetorical, Socratic, Romantic .................................................................. 50 Beyond Thought/Language Dualism .................................................................... 51 Ordo Inversus as Romantic Irony ........................................................................ 52 Representing the Unrepresentable ....................................................................... 54 Productive Negativity: The Ironic Dialectic .......................................................... 55 Irony Applied: The Subject in Australia ................................................................ 56 Model Theory: How Romanticism Continues and Adapts ........................... 57 Model Theory: A Pragmatic Alternative ............................................................... 57 What is a Model? ................................................................................................ 59 The Modelling Process ........................................................................................ 60 8 Contents III. David Malouf Malouf: An Author in Context .................................................................... 65 Malouf and the History Wars ........................................................................... 66 Malouf: A Romantic? ......................................................................................... 68 A Poetics of Place .............................................................................................. 73 Water ....................................................................................................................... 79 Edges of the Nation ............................................................................................ 79 “Sheer Edge”; “At Deception Bay”; “Into the Blue”; “The Catch”; “This Day Under My Hand”; “An Ordinary Evening at Hamilton” ............................... 79 Communing with the Animal Other ............................................................... 92 “In the Sea’s Giving”; “The Crab Feast”; “Pentecostal” ........................................... 92 Water: Closing Remarks .................................................................................... 105 Interiors ............................................................................................................... 107 Fragments of the Social Self ............................................................................ 107 “This Day Under My Hand”; “An Ordinary Evening at Hamilton” ....................... 107 Recollections of Childhood: Deconstructing the Indoor Self .................... 110 “Interiors from a Childhood”; “Indoor Garden” .................................................. 110 Inside Language ................................................................................................ 113 “Dot Poem, the Connections”; “In the Beginning” .............................................. 113 The Wild Indoors ............................................................................................. 117 “The Year of the Foxes”; “Notes from a Menagerie”; “Footnote for a Bestiary” ...... 117 Interiors: Closing Remarks ...............................................................................
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