Reconciling Words and Things: Language Allegories in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon
A major preoccupation in David Malouf’s fiction – particularly in evidence in Remembering Babylon but also in An Imaginary Life – has to do with the relationship between words and things, and with the quest for a kind of language that might be in complete harmony with reality.At times, Malouf seems...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | A major preoccupation in David Malouf’s fiction – particularly in evidence in Remembering Babylon but also in An Imaginary Life – has to do with the relationship between words and things, and with the quest for a kind of language that might be in complete harmony with reality.At times, Malouf seems to believe this quest can be successful, in spite of the arbitrary and conventional nature of language. But this conviction is undermined by the realisation that language gives shape to reality as we see it, that it is creative rather than simply referential. |
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