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1 Silence, the ‘Virtue of Speaking’ : David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life and Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Language Sabina Sestigiani , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Orbis Litterarum , December vol. 65 no. 6 2010; (p. 481-496) This article examines David Malouf 's An Imaginary Life through the lens of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language. Confined for the rest of his life at Tomis, a distant and foreign outpost on the eastern border of the Roman Empire, the main character of Malouf's book, the Latin poet Ovid, endeavours to master a silent language. In doing so, Ovid overcomes the lack of correspondence between word and object. His efforts of learning a language made of 'silence', I argue, are an example of Benjamin's notion of Ursprache (primeval language), the primordial essence or 'the kinship' of language, a pivotal element of Benjamin's philosophy of language.
2 1 y separately published work icon Writing Colonisation : Violence, Landscape and the Act of Naming in Italian and Australian Modern Literature Sabina Sestigiani , Clayton : 2008 6552351 2008 single work multi chapter work thesis criticism

'Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape and the Act of Naming in Italian and Australian Modern Literature, focuses on the conceptualisation of colonial space and its naming, in Italian and Australian literature. ' (Source: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/business/staff/LCIS/ssestigiani.html )
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