Great Day | Criticism

  • Wendy Perkins

    Perkins is a professor of American and English literature and film. In this essay, Perkins traces the characters' achievement of a harmonious balance.

  • Brigid Rooney

    In the following essay, Rooney gives a critical analysis of Malouf's life and work.

  • Peter Pierce

    In the following essay, Pierce explores the importance of dreams as "analogies" to the waking state, the merging of and volleying between spaces and consciousness, and the fluid impermanence of life in "Great Day" and other works in the Dream Stuff collection.

  • John Scheckter

    In the following essay, Scheckter examines Malouf's incorporation of "play" to usurp fixed locations—whether a place or consciousness—and how this suggests impermanence. Malouf utilizes the Aboriginal culture's ability to re-imagine the world as a "challenge" to European colonialism and ideology.