BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL

The spiritual insights or epiphanies experienced by Malouf’s characters are never predictable within the context or structure of ...

have been catapulted twenty thousand years into the nearer past, or into my own future ... and I thought oddly that if I were to ...

David Malouf thus sets about to forge anew the consciousness of his reader, to cause them to consider anew the real nature of in ...

The transcendental nature of the novel begins to emerge almost immediately and is revealed in the words of Ovid when he says: Ho ...

This mystery of the Child’s nature and origins is sustained in a variety of detail throughout the novel. However, in the final s ...

become primitive. Both characters symbolize the id, that unconscious reservoir of primitive instincts in so-called civilized peo ...

order to participate in a life of higher consciousness, as is the case in shamanism. I n this passage the world is essentially n ...

There is throughout Malouf’s work an ambivalence about this transformational experience. By its very nature the experience is be ...

horizon to horizon and the whole arch of the sky, its quality now the purest air, a myriad particles of light, each one a little ...

Not only do we see in this passage the Child as psychopomp or spirit guide but in the last stages of Ovid’s transformation the C ...

conscious level of culture and an unconscious primitivity (Jung, CW, 10 par. 103). Perhaps then what Malouf is also saying is th ...

I n a short essay where he describes his idea of the relationship between imagination and reality, Malouf writes, in a manner th ...

(e) Deeper into Time and Place Place for David Malouf facilitates the act of becoming. Places are remembered because of the thin ...

of time and place and yet, simultaneously, can be in some other time and place. A time and place peopled, too, just as substanti ...

lost” even though it is his grave. I n Fly Away Peter, the dead Clancy gives Jim a similar clue: Jim looked around, astonished. ...

knife forest. I t is that deeply religious poetry of transcendence – transcendence of the physical to an ephemeral world of perc ...

Wandering along together, wading through the high grasses side by side, is a kind of conversation that needs no tongue, a perfec ...

the Keneally corpus is one where minor characters and motifs from earlier works are reinvestigated, often from a different persp ...

little Franciscan friar, who should not, according to canon law, have allowed Keneally, figuratively, a fallen priest, to enter ...

becoming united with the divine ... to enter into mystical union with the word is to attain final bliss (Dillistone, 1955:1 42 - ...