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Dedication: For my sister and all the cousins
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The Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture
2019
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criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 1 2019; (p. 142-150) 'It’s a great honour for me to be asked to give this memorial lecture for Randolph Stow. Thanks to the Westerly Centre and the Festival for inviting me. Stow’s writing has been a part of my life since my early twenties, when I was given the Penguin To the Islands (1962) as a birthday present. I didn’t know then that when Stow wrote it he was the same age as me reading it, or that it was his third published novel. After that, I read The Merry-go-Round in the Sea (1965) and Tourmaline (1963). Then in my early years here at the University of Western Australia (UWA) I first read two more: Visitants (1979) and The Girl Green as Elderflower (1980). Quite a few years later, after many re-readings, I think of Stow as a great artist, a poet amongst the English-language novelists of his time.' (Introduction) -
Lost and Found in Translation : Who Can Talk to Country?
2019
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essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , January no. 63 2019; (p. 29-46)'Unlike many city-dwelling Australians, the desert holds no terrors for me. Instead, like DH Lawrence, I find the cathedral forests of the coastal regions oppressive and disquieting. Lawrence brought to his descriptions of the Australian bush the same overwrought sensitivity that created the claustrophobic emotional landscape of 'Sons and Lovers', and the appalling, majestic insularity of the Italian mountain village in 'The Lost Girl'. He was the writer who made explicit the sense of some non-human presence in the Antipodean landscape, and while I have a different interpretation of the 'speechless, aimless solitariness' he attributes to the country, his instincts were good.' (Publication abstract)
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Farm Novel or Station Romance? The Geraldton Novels of Randolph Stow
2018
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criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 1 no. 18 2018;'Critical interpretations of Randolph Stow's works have been inclined to see them as studies of alienation. This essay addresses the material basis for the novels that Stow set in the Geraldton hinterland, namely A Haunted Land (1956), The Bystander (1957), and Merry-Go-Round in the Sea (1965). Against the metaphysical and postcolonial readings of Stow's work, this essay posits an alienation that stems from a change in agricultural mode from pastoral to farming.' (Publication abstract)
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Fine Print
2014
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review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 2-3 August 2014; (p. 21)
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'Our Kind of Country' : Writing Australia from New Mexico
2013
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criticism
— Appears in: Magnificent Obsessions : Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley 2013; (p. 104-121)
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My Books My Story
2008
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review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 16 February 2008; (p. 30)
— Review of The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea 1965 single work novel ; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony : Comprising Australia Felix, The Way Home, Ultima Thule 1930 selected work novel -
Local Classics
2009
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review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 12 September 2009; (p. 12)
— Review of Cloudstreet 1991 single work novel ; Sixty Lights 2004 single work novel ; Gilgamesh : A Novel 2001 single work novel ; The Shark Net : Memories and Murder 2000 single work autobiography ; A Fortunate Life 1980 single work autobiography ; The Well 1986 single work novel ; The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea 1965 single work novel -
[Review] The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
1965
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review
— Appears in: The Spectator , 31 December 1965; (p. 869)
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[Review] The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
1965
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review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 18 December 1965; (p. 22)
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[Review] The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
1965
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review
— Appears in: New Statesman , 22 October 1965; (p. 613)
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'The Country We Might Have Been' : The Experience of War in Canadian and Australian Literature
2002
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— Appears in: Crabtracks : Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English : Essays in Honour of Dieter Riemenschneider 2002; (p. 283-304) -
Children's National Notes : India and Australia in Mena Abdullah's The Time of the Peacock and Stow's The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
2003
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— Appears in: Austral-Asian Encounters : From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism 2003; (p. 196-203) -
Mates, Mum and Maui : The Theme of Maturity in Three Antipodean Novels
1993
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— Appears in: Readings in Pacific Literature 1993; (p. 173-189) -
The Australian Home-Front Novel of the Second World War: Genre, Gender and Region
2007
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 23 no. 1 2007; (p. 79-91) -
A Beach Somewhere : The Australian Littoral Imagination at Play
2007
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criticism
— Appears in: The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007; (p. 31-44) A remarkable array of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Australian novelists and short story writers have presented images of West Australian beaches and coastlines. These authors include Robert Drewe, Jack Davis, Randolph Stow, Peter Cowan, Dorothy Hewett, and Tim Winton. Their human dramas have a peculiar poignancy when played out against the natural elements of these Western coasts. Sexual, emotional, or spiritual crises occur in maritime settings that both enhance their memorability and reveal humanity's fragile hold on the continent. (abstract taken from The Littoral Zone)
- Geraldton, Geraldton area, Dongara - Geraldton - Northampton area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
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cJapan,cEast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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