Embroidered with imaginative details that often reanimate familiar elements of the epic. 'Fiction, in Malouf's hands, becomes the art of rendering the world coherent. Ransom is a rich meditation on literary genre. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Ransom by David Malouf.

In the Afterword to Ransom, Malouf says that he considers the novel to be, at heart, about storytelling. 'The sheer potency of this slim volume can hijack your senses and emotions.' - The Courier-Mail Ransom essays are academic essays for citation. The Epic and the Everyday Themes and Colors LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Ransom, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. 'This book shines new light on this story of the Trojan War, adding twists and reflections as well as flashes of earthly humour.' - Brisbane News Ransom Summary Next Part 1 In the tenth year of the Trojan War, Achilles a demigod and the greatest of all the Greek warriorsstands brooding on the shores of the sea. Malouf's prose is delicate, marvellously alert to the natural world and endowed with a quality that has one name only: wisdom.' - Sydney Morning Herald ' Ransom is a tour de force, incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and in its unstated imperative to imagine our lives in light of fellow feeling. Malouf's masterly return to the novel ably stands with recent versions of Homeric themes such as Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy and Christopher Logue's War Music.' - Library Journal Though Malouf's sparingly deployed details, vigorous language and sly wit humanizes these tragic heroes, the story is unmistakably epic and certainly the stuff of legend.' - Publishers Weekly Ransom focuses tightly on the inner worlds of two characters: Priam and Achilles.

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